I'm stuck fellow monks, Okay this is the first time I've run into non-fixed data. What I mean by that is that the data is in a block structure but certain lines of the data are on different lines most of the time.

Normally I'd use $/ to break down the blocks into paragraphs and print out $line2 or whatever line. However now I can't do that because let's say $line2 was dog but in my data dog could be on line 5 so if I said:
print "$line2";
I'd have it printing cat.

So I was wondering how with a data structure as below could you print out the following lines of data without knowing what line they'll be on. I was reading through the camel book and it sounds like I need to make a hash of arrays but the example wasn't what I wanted it prints out the ARRAY value like (0xcf02) some crazy stuff like that. I want it to print out the value I typed into it. Anyway do I have the right idea to make a hash of arrays for the below data in order to print out a line that isn't always in the same location. For example the lines: "interruptionTime", "chargeParty", "disconnectingParty". Lets say those are the 3 lines I wanted to print and in one record block "interruptionTime" could be on line 2 and in the next block line 18. Here is an example of the data:

 PCSPLMNCallDataRecord
    mSTerminating                                               
      callIdentificationNumber                 2487067'D
      relatedCallNumber                        2487060'D
      recordSequenceNumber                     7410342'D
      exchangeIdentity                         "MAPP01E 0117802"'S
      mSCIdentification                        1119207079800F'TBCD
      cellIDForFirstCellCalled                 13F046044D55B5'H
      incomingRoute                            "BAPL01I"'S
      outgoingRoute                            "BAPL01O"'S
      callingPartyNumber                       146084466642'TBCD
      calledPartyNumber                        1116084466643F'TBCD
      iMSICalled                               13600410005231F1'H
      mobileStationRoamingNumber               1116084469970F'TBCD
      redirectionCounter                       0'D
      dateForStartOfCharge                     1  8 28'BCD
      timeForTCSeizureCalled                   170F25'H
      timeForStartOfCharge                     23 15 44'BCD
      chargeableDuration                       0  0 11'BCD
      trafficActivityCode                      11  2 14'BCD
      teleServiceCode                          11'H
      internalCauseAndLoc                      0  3'BCD
      timeFromRegisterSeizureToStartOfCharging         0  0  9'BCD
      timeForStopOfCharge                      23 15 55'BCD
      interruptionTime                         0  0  0'BCD
      typeOfCallingSubscriber                  1'D
      disconnectingParty                       0'D
      chargedParty                             1'D
      eosInfo                                  00'H
      callPosition                             3'D
      originForCharging                        1'D
      cellIDForLastCellCalled                  13F046044D55B5'H
      locationNumberTerminating                114141079808F0'H
      tariffClass                              10'D
      tariffSwitchInd                          0'D
      firstAssignedSpeechCoderVersion          01'H
      speechCoderPreferenceList                0100'H
      firstRadioChannelUsed                    00'H
      radioChannelProperty                     01'H
      presentationAndScreeningIndicator        30'H
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So any ideas on how I can achieve this, and is my idea headed in the right direction with a hash of arrays?
The Brassmon_k

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