Re^2: Perl reading in a file and getting a string in between two strings on different lines

my $beginString = "SEARCH";
my $endString = "TEST";

my $fileContent;
open(my $fileHandler, $inputFile) or die "no read '$inputFile' $!\n";

while (<$fileHandler>) {
    print if /$beginString/ .. /$endString/;
}

close $fileHandler;
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Re^3: Perl reading in a file and getting a string in between two strings on different lines by victorz22 (Sexton) on Apr 17, 2017 at 21:32 UTC
That didn't work the output i got was just the whole file, i even tried to put an 's' at the end of it for many lines but that didn't work either.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl reading in a file and getting a string in between two strings on different lines by LanX (Saint) on Apr 17, 2017 at 21:56 UTC
Show input that doesn't work! See SSCCE That's a classic, most likely you are doing it wrong. The only possibility top make it foolproof is to quote regex metacharacters and to anchor the line's start with ^ `print if /^\Q$beginString/ .. /^\Q$endString/;` See `quotemeta` Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l]


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