in reply to The best way to replace several fragments of the file starting with the one pattern(marker) and ending with another pattern/marker.

The range operator leads to a fairly clean solution:

use strict; use warnings; my @subs = ( ['AAAAAA', 'f11', 'f12', 'f13', 'BBBBBB'], ['CCCCCC', 'f21', 'f22', 'DDDDDD'], ); while (my $line = <DATA>) { if (@subs) { my $state = $line =~ /^$subs[0][0]$/ .. $line =~ /^$subs[0][-1 +]$/; if (($state) =~ /E0$/) { print join "\n", @{$subs[0]}, ''; shift @subs; } next if $state; } print $line; } __DATA__ aaa aaa AAAAAA ccc ddd BBBBBB 111 222 333 CCCCCC 444 555 666 DDDDDD 777 888 999

Prints:

aaa aaa AAAAAA f11 f12 f13 BBBBBB 111 222 333 CCCCCC f21 f22 DDDDDD 777 888 999

If you don't want the marker lines in the output use:

print join "\n", @{$subs[0]}[1 .. $#{$subs[0]} - 1], '';

for the print line.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond
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