Here's one that uses almost no storage, by seeking back to the last PATTERN1 and re-reading the input file. Note that this will not work on a pipe.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11111545 use warnings; my $fh = *DATA; # FIXME to your input file, DATA only used for testing my $lastpattern1; while( <$fh> ) { if( /PATTERN1/ ) { $lastpattern1 = tell($fh) - length $_; } elsif( $lastpattern1 and /PATTERN3/ ) { seek $fh, $lastpattern1, 0; while( <$fh> ) { my $end = s/ (?=PATTERN3)/\n\n/; print; $end and last; } $lastpattern1 = undef; } } __DATA__ PATTERN1 SOME INFO TEXT1 TEXT2 TEXT3 PATTERN2 SOME INFO PATTERN1 SOME INFO TEXT4 TEXT5 TEXT6 PATTERN3 SOME INFO PATTERN1 SOME INFO TEXT1 TEXT2 TEXT3 PATTERN4 SOME INFO PATTERN1 SOME INFO TEXT4 TEXT55 TEXT6 PATTERN3 SOME INFO

I also do the fix up on the PATTERN3 line, though I'm curious if that was just a typo on your part?


In reply to Re: command line perl command to get between lines with non greedy match by tybalt89
in thread command line perl command to get between lines with non greedy match by ravi_perl_monks

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