Processing a portion of a file.

anilga

Hi ,

I want to grep for multiple lines, like

;START
;copy here
;END

I need to grep from ;START to ;END
I am using windiws XP.

Please let me know if anybody can help.

I tried
grep /^;START[.*][\n];END$/mi, <FILE>;

Thanks
Anil

miller

Take a look at the Range Operator on perldoc, and do your file processing using a while loop.

- Miller

KevinADC

you need to return the value of grep to an array:

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my @lines = grep /^;START[.*][\n];END$/mi, <FILE>;

[.*] is a character class of a dot and an asterisk, not the same as (.*) which captures the pattern in memory, and [\n] is not needed if this really is a multiline match.

try like this:

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my @lines = grep /^;START(.*);END$/mi, <FILE>;

miller

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my @lines = grep {/^;START/../^;END/} <DATA>;
 
print @lines;
 
__DATA__

more stuff

and yet

;START

;copy here

;END

final stuff

and yet

- Miller

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