I have a text file that I am trying to read that looks somewhat like the following

START FILE -------------------------------------------------- 5011 VariableName1 And here is a bunch of text that some user entered. It can be 1000 characters long, can have various carriage returns in it

-------------------------------------------------- 5033 VariableName2 And here is yet more text.

Except for I didn't keep typing but decided

to put a lot of carriage returns in my text --------------------------------------------------- 5034 VariableName3 More text

etc. etc.

END

The 4 digit number is the id number, the variable name is just that and the rest is text that I am trying to put into a comment field.

Any ideas, suggestions would be welcome.

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