in reply to Will the range operator help you?
in thread How to remove lines out of an ascii file

This works fine but I don't want to include my matching line into the skip. Is this possible.

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Re: Re: Will the range operator help you?
by broquaint (Abbot) on Sep 19, 2001 at 19:33 UTC
    Sure if you just do something like this - 
    while(<FILE>) {
    next unless /^CPN/ .. eof() and !/^CPN/;
    [munge data here]
}

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    broquaint

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