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Your loop:

while ( <DATA> ) ...
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Takes one line at a time.

print "Line is:", $_, " END\n";
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Will give you a hint as to what's going on:

Line is:id: xx-ada-qwebasd,
 END
Line is:name: telphone,
 END
Line is:id: fasda-asd-123123-fkja123a,
 END
Line is:name: car,
 END
Line is:id: 97f921-a312-fas2,
 END
Line is:name: ball, END
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What you need to do is grab two lines at a time - there's various ways of doing that. Off the top of my head, reading a second line (if fixed format), or use of grep. I'll have a thought and see if I can come up with something elegant

In reply to Re: Help Extract these lines by Preceptor
in thread Help Extract these lines by Anonymous Monk

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