Dear all,
The solution proposed in posting 7633 (How do I extract all text between two keywords like start and end?) is not working for me. I have tried it and failed. (probably because I'm a perl newbie) A try with grep failed also (the "s" switch didn't work). Neither do I find other good examples on the net. Can somebody solve the problem?
My problem is the following:
  1. a 9 MB text file
  2. Multiple parts that must be extracted between "labels"
  3. The parts are not nested but successive
  4. The substracted parts must be in a CSV form
  5. It would be nice to have the label names in the csv
e.g. 

start\n
blabla\n
...
blabla\n </i>
begin:\n
usefull information1\n
usefull information2\n
usefull information3\n
end:\n
blabla\n
...
blabla\n
\n
start
blabla\n
...
blabla\n
begin:\n
usefull information1\n
end:\n
blabla\n
etc etc

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I hope you can help. Thanks in advance.
Firewall

edited by ybiC: my best effort at intended formatting, with <code> instead of unbalanced & unopened </p>s

In reply to Selecting text between given words (multi-lines (/n) and multiple occurrences) by nylon

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