Haha, you've almost nailed it, but its not different vehicles but different types of cover.

I'm just stuck and don't know how I am going to separate the fields into a readable format. Thanks for pointing out that 99HEADER appeared twice that slipped by me.

So this is what I have so far:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @files = <*.in>;
for my $file (@files)
{
    open my $handle, '<', $file;
    chomp(my @lines = <$handle>);
    close $handle;
    
    open my $write, '>', "$file.sep";

    my @enr_data = grep {/^99/} @lines;
    
    s/99/\n99/g for (@enr_data);
    
    close($handle);
}
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This separates the lines I need from the file after more data analysis I realised that there are more areas with 99 Factors appear.I basically just need to cut fields up so that they can be read by your standard user.

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