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Not sure this is going to work, as it will never find the message i am looking for, should i not be using something like the (.*) so store the contents between Message Dump: and Message Dump:
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Re^9: Matching string, then getting next line
by wazoox (Prior) on Mar 09, 2006 at 09:33 UTC
    Well if you know what's you're looking for, probably matching it directly would be easier then. 
    my $message;
while (<FILE>) {
   if ( m/\d\d \d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\d .*/ ) {
      $message .= $_
   }
}

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