Re: Re: multi-line match

The easiest way would be to use two passes. The first adds a blank line before each header:

perl -ple"$_ = qq[\n] . $_ if /^*header/" infile >modified
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NB! Different quotes on *nix!

The second pass is just which ever of the earlier answers you like best.

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Re: Re: Re: multi-line match by pdotcdot (Acolyte) on Aug 08, 2003 at 09:33 UTC
Thanks very much BrowserUk and all monks, i'm still sorting out different multiline queries but i am determined to get there! thanks again!	[reply]