Hello, I work for a newspaper and we are trying to generate a page report from our classified system. We plan to do this by parsing the "PIL" file that calls all of the elements for pagination.

I need to get all of the "object" sections out of a file, and they are multi-line sections.

The file starts with a line like so:

pageoutput-5.0.1.0:20001201,TD,*,*,,FOO,2; {
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Then there is a section that defines the path to the EPS's that make up the section:

name-table { 
                "DAILY.evo" atex-itf unix-filename "/atexdata/clspag-d
+ataD5/tmp/cpgfol2_018356_00" 
                "1400.cm1" atex-itf unix-filename "/atexdata/clspag-da
+taD5/furn-content/header/bin/T_1400.cm1" 
                "1476 .wr1" atex-itf unix-filename "/atexdata/clspag-d
+ataD5/furn-content/header/bin/T_1476.wr1" 
                "608373" eps unix-filename "/atexdata/clspag-dataD5/ad
+-content/71/1432671" 
                .........(etc.)
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Next section sets up the page dims:

canvas { 
                user-name "ATEX-CLSPAG:20001201,TD,*,*,,F,2,WHEELS,2;"
+ 
                units 35278 
                dimensions { 9360 15241 }
                application { 
                        app-name "ATEX-REFLEX" 
                        string                  { last-modified-time "
+20001203:14:24:46" }
                        string                  { status "UNDEFINED" }
                }
        }
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And the we have "object" sections for each element:

        object { 
                origin { 0 0 }
                dimensions { 9360 130 }
                id "DAILY.evo" 
                user-name "DAILY.evo" 
                rc-name "DAILY.evo" 
                application { 
                        app-name "ATEX-FPO-DUMMY-CONTROL" 
                        string                  { major-type "FRN" }
                        string                  { ad-number "DAILY.evo
+" }
                }
        }
        object { 
                origin { 0 130 }
                dimensions { 900 1 }
                id "1400.cm1" 
                user-name "1400.cm1" 
                rc-name "1400.cm1" 
                application { 
                        app-name "ATEX-FPO-DUMMY-CONTROL" 
                        string                  { major-type "FRN" }
                        string                  { ad-number "1400.cm1"
+ }
                }
        }
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And these repeat for each ad on the page. How would I get each of these object sections?? I would like to store them in a hash called %object and key them by the "id" field in the object section. I also will need to store the object origin and dimension.

example:
%object{1400.cm1;originw} ; # References Origin Width for 1400.cm1
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I know this must seem simple to many of you, but I don't really understand stepping through a file and getting this all out. Thanks for any help. (Didn't see this in TFM, but i might just not know where to look...) ~HamNRye