in reply to Stripping tags from a PerlMonks page.

Here is a quick-and-dirty solution. According to your description, it might suffice 
while(<>) {
    next if (/line that i want to skip/);
    $skip=1 if(/line marking beginning of skip block/);
    $skip=0 if(/line marking end of skip block/);
    print unless ($skip || ($.<$startline && $.>endline);
}

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This lets you define the line you want to skip, a block delimited by two special lines and lines in a certain numeric range.

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RE: Re: Stripping tags from a PerlMonks page.
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 25, 2000 at 17:42 UTC

    Parsing HTML using regular expressions is always a dangerous affair - especially if you have no control over the HTML content - but if you were going to use this approach you could simplify it by using the '..' operator.

    while (<>) {
  next if /line to skip/;

  print unless ($startline .. $endline) 
    or (/skip start line/ .. /skip end line);
}

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