Hi Monks,
I have seen the post here about "Getting lines in a file between two patterns" (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=979946)
I was curious that what if I need to extract only the second block of lines that meet the pattern?
Is there something that we can do via (/START/ .. /END) pattern matching? Many thanks
That is:
I have a text file -
abc
efg
...
START
lines not to be extracted
END
START
lines to be extracted
END
START
lines not to be extracted
END
...
I think I find a way. Thanks guys
my $count = 0;
11 while (<$fh_r>) {
12 if (/START/ .. /END/) {
13 $count++ if /START/;
14 print if ($count == 2);
15 }
16 }
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Updated on Nov. 10, 15pm PST
Thank you so much guys. I read through all your answers and appreciate your help.
Thank you all and have a nice day.
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