- or download this
my $x = <<'EOX';
A {
...
EOX
$x =~ s/A\s*\{.+?\}//s;
print "x='$x'\n"; # empty
- or download this
perl -pe 's/A\s*\{.+?\}//s' <<'EOX'
A {
...
}
EOX
# prints exactly what the input is
- or download this
x='s/A\s*\{.+?\}//s'
echo $x
# s/A\s*\{.+?\}//s
- or download this
cat > infile<<'EOX'
A {
...
EOX
perl -pe 's/A\s*\{.+?\}//s' infile
# or perl -i -pe 's/A\s*\{.+?\}//s' infile