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DB<72> map {if ($x=(/b/../d/)) { $out[$x]=$_; $last=$x }} a..e,a..e, +a..b,1..3,d..e; ... 3 3 4 'd' DB<74>
>perl -ne"if ($x=(/PATTERN1/.../PATTERN?/)) { $out[$x]=$_; $last=$x; } +; END{ print @out[1..$last] }" input PATTERN1 SOME INFO ... TEXT6 PATTERN3 SOME INFO C:\tmp\files>