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From: PerlFAQ Server on 16 Jun 2010 06:00 This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq6.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.3: How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on different lines? You can use Perl's somewhat exotic ".." operator (documented in perlop): perl -ne 'print if /START/ .. /END/' file1 file2 ... If you wanted text and not lines, you would use perl -0777 -ne 'print "$1\n" while /START(.*?)END/gs' file1 file2 ... But if you want nested occurrences of "START" through "END", you'll run up against the problem described in the question in this section on matching balanced text. Here's another example of using "..": while (<>) { $in_header = 1 .. /^$/; $in_body = /^$/ .. eof; # now choose between them } continue { $. = 0 if eof; # fix $. } -------------------------------------------------------------------- The perlfaq-workers, a group of volunteers, maintain the perlfaq. They are not necessarily experts in every domain where Perl might show up, so please include as much information as possible and relevant in any corrections. The perlfaq-workers also don't have access to every operating system or platform, so please include relevant details for corrections to examples that do not work on particular platforms. Working code is greatly appreciated. If you'd like to help maintain the perlfaq, see the details in perlfaq.pod.
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