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:

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:

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

[miller]

[CODE=perl]
my @lines = grep {/^;START/../^;END/} <DATA>;

print @lines;

__DATA__
more stuff
and yet
;START
;copy here
;END
final stuff
and yet
[/CODE]

- Miller