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(Untested) If the questions in the input are separated by blank lines:
# Read input a paragraph at a time # and put carriage returns on output lines local $/ = "\n\n"; local $\ = "\n"; # Read input, one question at a time while (<>) { chomp; # Grab the question number my $number = /^(\d+\.)/; # Split the question into lines my @question = split /\n/; # The answer is the last line my $answer = pop @question; # Send the results to different output streams print OUT1 join("\n", @question); print OUT2 "$number $answer"; }

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