Here’s variation on trippledubssolution using the 3-dot form of the flip-flop operator:

#! perl use strict; use warnings; my $re = qr{^//\*+$}; while (<DATA>) { if (my $seq = /$re/ ... /$re/) { if ($seq > 1 && $seq !~ /E0$/) { print if m{^//\s*\S+}; } } } __DATA__ // useless comment Some Code //********************************************************** // //I need that text // And that also // //********************************************************** Some Code // useless comment //********************************************************** // More text //********************************************************** More code

Update: Changed print unless m{^//$}; to print if m{^//\s*\S+}; to filter-out non-comment lines.

Output:

1:25 >perl 1128_SoPW.pl //I need that text // And that also // More text 1:25 >

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,


In reply to Re: Regex needed :< by Athanasius
in thread Regex needed :< by Anonymous Monk

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