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Re: Replacing between patterns

by jwkrahn (Abbot)
on Oct 28, 2019 at 20:34 UTC ( [id://11108056]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Replacing between patterns

$ echo "123
ABC
123
abc
XYZ hi
la" | perl -0777pe 's/ABC(?s:.*?)XYZ.*/[DATA]/'
123
[DATA]
la

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Re^2: Replacing between patterns
by rsFalse (Chaplain) on Oct 29, 2019 at 13:25 UTC
    Similarly, but with /m and $:
    echo "123
ABC
123
abc
XYZ hi
la" | perl -0777 -pe 's/ ABC .*? XYZ .*? $ /[DATA]/msx'
123
[DATA]
la

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