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Fair enough, so I did, using the following: 
while(<DATA>) {
   print if (/line1/ ... /line5/);
}

__DATA__
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5

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Outputs all the lines, including the start and end "markers". So, unless I am doing something wrong, I don't see how this is any different from the .. operator I have used in the past (at least under 5.8)?

Reason I didn't just try it (which I should have anyway, admittedly) is that I thought myself and others would benefit from a little further explanation.

Guess it's RTFM time for me...

In reply to Re^4: get data from the database -CGI by mjscott2702
in thread parsing a txt file by baxy77bax

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