Re: subroutine returning lines of text

2002-01-16 Thread Briac Pilpré
Martin A. Hansen wrote: im wondering how i can make a subroutine that will return all text lines between certain marks such as START and STOP: Here's simple way to do it. It uses the '..' operator (see perldoc perlop for more info about it). Note that if START and STOP are in the same line,

RE: subroutine returning lines of text

2002-01-16 Thread Gary Hawkins
im wondering how i can make a subroutine that will return all text lines between certain marks such as START and STOP: text file: START text is here and there is a lot of it STOP so i would like to call the subroutine with the arguments START and STOP (because i may need more