I'm attempting to write a script that will delete a certain portion of a data file. What I want to do is delete everything between (and including) two lines, line A and line B
The "file": ... #lineA ... #lineB ... To an extent I don't really care what tool is used, but I've been unable to accomplish the task with either Perl or SED so I'm wondering if there might be something wrong with the regular expressions that I've tried. A couple of the reg-exp's that I've tried: 's/#lineA.*#lineB//gs' 's/#lineA(.|\n)*#lineB//gs' Both of the above seem to work fine if #lineA and #lineB are on the same line in the file (I've yet to add in anything to check if #lineA and #lineB occur at the start of the line, but that'll be added in later). Shouldn't the /s modifier allow multi-line matching to take place? David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
