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Two problems:

Missing space in 

if rather than while

A working version of your code in a form that is better for stand alone testing is:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = join "", <DATA>;
while($text =~ /<!-- Start_of_revision-->(.*?)<!-- End_of_revision-->/
+sg)
    {
    print $1;
    }
    
__DATA__

<!-- Start_of_revision-->
revision1
<!-- End_of_revision-->

<!-- Start_of_revision-->
revision2
<!-- End_of_revision-->

<!-- Start_of_revision-->
revision3
<!-- End_of_revision-->
[download]


revision1

revision2

revision3
[download]

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: Regular expressions by GrandFather
in thread Regular expressions by Anonymous Monk

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