File content question

From: Sanjeev Sagar (sanjeev.sagar_at_eds.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:24:58 -0600

Hello Everyone,

We have a process where several scripts write to centralized log file. I
have to retrieve a specific set of information and display in a format.
Following is a snippet of log file

=========================
<Bunch of text lines>

Variable_name Value
1.
2.
3.
4.
.
.
.
Upto 200 lines of variables and their values
************************1 row***************

<Bunch of text files>
===============================

I have to collect the variable_name and their value block of 200 lines.
Every 15 min. this output get added in file.

I am trying to write code for this but getting lost in b/w like below

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$infile = "/tmp/test1.log";
$outfile = "/tmp/mysqltats.out";

open (INFILE, "<$infile") || die "cannot open $infile: $!\n";
open (OUTFILE, ">$outfile") || die "cannot open $outfile: $!\n";

while ( $mystring = <INFILE> ) {

        chomp $mystring;
        if ( $mystring =~ /\*+/) { next; }
        elsif ( $mystring =~ /^Variable_name/ ) { next; }

   #Here I need to store those 200 lines in an array or something but don't
know how.
}

close (OUTFILE);
close (INFILE);

system ("cat $outfile");

Any help will be highly appreciable.

Best Regards,

 <<Sagar, Sanjeev.vcf>>

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