Re: strip text up to a keyword?

From: Anno Siegel (anno4000_at_lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 10/10/03 

Date: 10 Oct 2003 11:42:48 GMT

Tad McClellan <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> kw <anon002001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a relatively simple way to strip/delete all text from a file,
> > up to a keyword?
>
>
> No.

Well, there is, but the OP doesn't need it (because the text is in memory
anyway). This prints blocks from "BEGIN" to "END" from a file:

    while ( <DATA> ) {
        print if s/.*(?=BEGIN)// .. s/(?<=END).*//;
    }
    
Anno

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