Thank you educated_foo.

" Keep adding "VAR," between the parens in #2 as long as Perl complains about 'Global symbol "VAR"...' Someone should probably write an Acme:: module to do this automatically."

I'll be glad to. Just as soon as I figure this all out. :)

My biggest hangup, I think, is that I'm quite comfortable with sed. But sed is "greedy" by default, and while Perl RE can be. It's not, by default, and that's what I need here (not greedy).

s/\<\/div\>/,/\<\/body\>/

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will match my pattern in sed. But it will match from the first </div> till the first </body>. Which is too much.

Thanks again for the response, educated_foo

--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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