Tried that. It didn't work.
I tried that too, before posting here. And it worked fine.
But I also made sure the strings you were looking for exist in the test data.
my test data:
<!-- start section-->
blah
<!-- end section -->
the test script in readmore:
#!/usr/bin/perl
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$start_pattern = '<!-- start section-->';
$end_pattern = '<!-- end section -->';
@files_to_look_in = ("test.html", "test.html");
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$write_line = 0;
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# while(@files_to_look_in) # original line (always true)
foreach (@files_to_look_in)
{
#open(HTM_FILE, <$_); # original line (no "")
open( HTM_FILE, "<$_" );
while(<HTM_FILE>)
{
if($_=~/$start_pattern/i)
{
$write_line = 1;
}
if($_=~/$end_pattern/i)
{
$write_line = 0;
}
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if($write_line =~ '1') # better make that if ( $write_line ==
+ 1 ) or simply if ( $write_line )
{
print "$_\n";
}
}
}
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