If I understand you correctly, the problem is that (by default) -p and -n cause the file(s) to be processed line-by-line. Therefore your regex is being applied line-by-line and can never match a pattern that stretches across more than one line as it never sees more than one line at any one time. Phew! What a mouthful:)

To work around this problem, you would need to cause the file to be processed as a single long line using 'slurp mode'. Try adding -0777 to your command line. See perlrun for details.

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In reply to Re: 'one-liner' help by BrowserUk
in thread 'one-liner' help by buc99

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