This assumes your markers are the only text on the line (or at least the only text you care about). You'll have to adjust and do some extra 's///' if that's not the case:
use File::Temp qw(tempfile); use Cwd; sub replace_file { my ($file, $start, $end, $replace_text) = @_; local (*ARGV, $_, $.); @ARGV = $file; my ($fh, $tmp_file) = tempfile(DIR=>cwd); my $replaced; while (<>) { my $replace = /\Q$start\E/../\Q$end\E/; print $fh $_ and next unless $replace; $replaced=1; print $fh $replace_text if $replace == 1; } close $fh; return unless $replaced; rename $tmp_file, $file or warn "Error replacing $file: $!"; }
Update: upon closer inspection, I see my answer is similar to BrowserUK's above, though my answer also deals with actually replacing the file, not just outputting the replaced text, and should work within a File::Find solution.

In reply to Re: Modifying A Bunch of Files by replacing specific lines by runrig
in thread Modifying A Bunch of Files by replacing specific lines by ishaqali

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