Dear Monks, I am novice with perl, trying to extract data from a text file, given below is input and required output, could you please help me with a simple program. INPUT PATTERN ------- url: www.google.com
name: Umesh
address: New Delhi
room no: 001
phone no: 34738472
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url: www.yahoo.com
name: Raj
address: Sahadara
room no: 002
phone no:
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url: www.rediff.com
name: Hem
address: mumbai
room no: 003
phone no: 84398419
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url: www.google.com
name: Mukesh
address:
room no: 004
phone no:
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name: abcxyz
address:
room no:
phone no: 4814314783
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name: Rakesh
address: jrieiqrjqq
room no:
phone no:
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output would be: 4814314783

url	name	address	room no	phone no
www.google.com	Umesh	New Delhi	1	34738472
www.yahoo.com	Raj	Sahadara	2
www.rediff.com	Hem	mumbai		3	84398419
www.google.com	Mukesh	abcxyz

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