[Gllug] Extracting a range of Lines from a file

[Jackson, Harry]

Hi all

Im afraid its another Perl question.

If I want to extract a range of lines on a text match I was thinking along
the lines of the following.

while ($current = <EXTRACT>) {

		if ($current =~ /^(.*?12\/12\/2000.*?$/ ..
/^(.*?12\/01\/2001.*?)$/ ) {
		    Do stuff on the range here;
			}	
		}

What I thought this would do was only give me the text between these two
matches. As you can probably guess this is not the case. I am able to
extract line ranges by number but not on the match. I have got the Cookbook
here which is were I got the idea from but no joy.



Regards;
Harry Jackson.


     


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