Suppose I had the following output from cvs log and what I want to do is strip off the last comment of each output. I tried using the negative lookahead, but I was unsuccessful. So what I want to strip off are the lines that begin with "------" to the line that ends with "====", but I only want to strip the last comment for each file. thanks, --eric

RCS file: /cvsroot/work/bar.txt
Working file: work/bar.txt
head: 1.1
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file bar.txt was initially added on branch main.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
adding some stuff to the document
======================================================================
+=======
 
RCS file: /cvsroot/work/foo.txt
Working file: work/foo.txt
head: 1.1
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file foo.txt was initially added on branch main.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
adding new text to my first file
======================================================================
+=======
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