Just for fun, a quick one-liner solution using perl's "flip-flop" (range) operator.

$ cat 1132036.txt
This is line 1
/*This is line 2
This is line 3
This is line 4*/
This is line 5
$ perl -ne 'print unless /\/\*/ .. /\*\//' 1132036.txt
This is line 1
This is line 5

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Note that like several of the other solutions presented by other monks, this doesn't fully handle the case of the comment markers appearing in the middle of the lines.

In reply to Re: How do i search and extract commented lines from a file using perl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do i search and extract commented lines from a file using perl? by sravan937

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