On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:37 +0200, Matthias Leopold wrote:
> hi,
>
> can someone please explain to me how to match patterns that contain
> newlines?
>
> when file.txt contains
>
> aaa
> bbb
> ccc
> ddd
> eee
>
> why doesn't
>
> perl -pe 's/bbb.*?ddd//s;' file.txt
>
> remove lines 2-4?
You didn't slurp your input.
perl -pe 'BEGIN{$/=undef};s/bbb.*?ddd//s;' file.txt
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