Sorry. I just 

cat ./FILE.html | perl {...}

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in an open xterm. After several failures, and no more ideas. I closed the xterm, and asked for help. I didn't think it'd be of any use in the request.

I've since read every single reference in the Perl documentation, and while I think I've got the RE part down. I'm quite sure I don't know how to feed Perl the file properly to do any more than eat a single line at a time.

So let me have another go at it. The following 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#retest.pl
# my feeble attempt to a multi-line RE in Perl

$regexp = shift;
while (<>) {
    print if /$regexp/;
}

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won't work as 
# ./retest.pl \</\div\>\n\<\/body\> ./FILE.html

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because shift will only manage input one line at a time. Attempts to figure how to make use of psed, and s2p, have failed miserably.

Apologies for the previous noise, and thank you for the thoughtful responses.

--Chris

Yes. What say about me, is true.

In reply to Re^2: Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block? by taint
in thread Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block? by taint

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