I'm new to perl so I may have made a mistake. Here are two examples of the strings I want to delete

{ Programa 1.2.3 64-bit 2dat: }

{ Programb 10.1.2.3 64-bit 1dat: }

Also sometimes there are no spaces between the braces like {Programa 1.2.3 64-bit 2dat:}, { Programa 1.2.3 64-bit 2dat:} and {Programa 1.2.3 64-bit 2dat: }. Does this make a difference to the code?

It would be good to get rid of both strings in one script. I'm using Perl version 5.24.1.

Update: After doing some reading, I have now tried s/.*\K\{\s*Name.*\}//s; and that seems to work with spaces/no spaces with the {}. I still don't know how to use one script to remove two or more strings like { Programa 1.2.3 64-bit 2dat: } and { Programb 10.1.2.3 64-bit 1dat: }.

Thanks.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1208527

use strict;
use warnings;

local $/ = '}';    # use } as line terminator...

while(<DATA>)
  {
  s/.*\K\{\s*(?:Name|Program).*\}//s;
  print;
  }

__DATA__
{ Name 1.2.3 xxxx xxxxx}

where xxxx and xxxxx could be a-z, 0-9 or : (a single colon).

There could be one or more spaces after { and before the } and there c
+ould be one or more spaces between the groups in the string. Also the
+ string could be split over two lines like

{ Name 1.2.3
xxxx xxxxx }

{ Name 1.2.
3 xxxx xxxxx}

{ Programa 1.2.
3 xxxx xxxxx}

{ Programb 1.2.
3 xxxx xxxxx}

{ Name 1.2.3 xxxx
xxxxx }.

So it could be split at a space or after a dot. There could be one or 
+more spaces at the end of the split line before the newline like this

{ Name 1.2.3\ \ \ \
xxxx }

where I use \ to denote a space.

My question is how do I get rid of all these strings in a file. I'm us
+ing Perl under Windows 10 if that helps.

Thanks.
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Thanks that worked. If I may ask one final question. How do I run the script on an input file say infile and output to a file outfile (these file names could change from run to run) without appending the infile to the code you provided? Alternatively can I make the changes using a suitable command line that does what the script does instead of using the script?

Thanks.