Hi Perl Monk,

I am re-posting the same question but with some changes in the code for which the earlier mentioned solution also dint work

#include <stdio.h>
#include "report.h"

void main()
{
  #ifdef CHECK_REPORT
    report("This is 
          good");
    reports("This is also 
            good")
  #endif

  #if defined (REPORT_ENABLE)
    report("This is not good");
  #endif

  printf("The execution is completed\n");
}
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please see in the code report may end with colon or not that is intentional. The output has to be like this

#include <stdio.h>
#include "report.h"

void main()
{

  #ifdef CHECK_REPORT
  #endif

  #if defined (REPORT_ENABLE)
  #endif

  printf("The execution is completed\n");
}
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But the perl code which I have used below

  $/ = undef;  
  $_ = <file1>;
  s#\breport[s]?.*? \)\;|("[^"].*?")#defined $1 ? $1 :""#gsiex;
  print $_
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when the code encounters the line with REPORT_ENABLE then it removes the rest of the code including printf.

From the previous post the solution given was

  s# .* report [s]? .* ; .* ##sx;
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this works if the report was not in multiple lines. can you suggest what changes I need to do my regex to get the required answer.

Regards,

-Prassi

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