Hi arturo,

The solution you presented will overwrite the output-file on each occurance of the section start. Furthermore, writing to closed filehandles isn't a very clean solution, IMHO.

You could try to use the magic '..' operator:

open OUT, '>&STDOUT' or die;

while ( <DATA> )
{
  print OUT if /start-marker/../end-marker/ 
     and !/(start-marker|end-marker)/;
}

close OUT or die;
__DATA__
a
b
c
start-marker
d
e
end-marker
f
g
start-marker
h
i
end-marker
j
k
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This will print the lines within the markers (thus: d,e,h and i in my example) but ignores the markers.

HTH,

(update: fixed some layout issues and used the actual '..' operator instead of the '...' one!).

-- JaWi

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