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If you have no other occurences of Category, you can simply search for that:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
for (<DATA>){
    if (m/^\s*Category (.*)$/){
        print $1, $/;
    }
}
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If you want to really parse the file, I'd recommend a simple recursive descending parser, see Parsing with Regexes and Beyond for an explanation. The tokens would be just the lines.

In reply to Re: Design hints for a file processor by moritz
in thread Design hints for a file processor by PhilHibbs

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