Tom Allison wrote:
> How do I pull all the words from a line between the two words 'from' and
> 'by' when I have NO IDEA what's in there, but I know they are all in one
> line.
>
> To make it more difficult. 'by' is optional...
>
> Like this:
>
> from......by......
> or
> from......
>
> I want all the stuff inside.
>
> Initially I'm thinking
> /from (.+?) (?:by (.+?))?/
>
> Anything better?
$ perl -le'
for ( "abc from to the word by and the end", "abc from to the end" ) {
print $1 if /from(.*?(?=by)|.*)/;
}
'
to the word
to the end
John
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