Ok I have read previous deiscussions on this and they did help :D However I have another type data to parse through. I am running through a Cisco router config and have managed to pull out the relevant section of the config I require, however the END point in the range operator expression I wish to leave out when returning the required part of the config.

Here is the extracted data:

policy-map CE-PE-ADCORP-EA-LM-RBA-INPUT
class ADCORP-EA-LM-INPUT-OUTPUT-PLATINUM
police cir 640000 bc 240000 be 480000
conform-action set-mpls-exp-transmit 4
exceed-action set-mpls-exp-transmit 3
violate-action drop
class ADCORP-EA-LM-RBA-INPUT-OUTPUT-GOLD
police cir 256000 bc 96000 be 192000
conform-action set-mpls-exp-transmit 2
exceed-action set-mpls-exp-transmit 1
violate-action drop
policy-map CE-PE-UBSW-PRIMARY-INPUT

This is the code I'm using in the match after reading in the router config file is:

$ouputpol = "CE-PE-ADCORP-EA-LM-RBA-INPUT";
if (/^ policy-map $ouputpol/.../ policy-map/) {
                                 
    print;
                                        
}

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Now I'm grabbing everything between and including the line starting with my policy-map I'm interested in until the next policy-map. Now I want to exclude the line "policy-map CE-PE-UBSW-PRIMARY-INPUT" in the output of my expression.

How do I go about this....I'm stumped......?? I'm sure it's simple but I'm just not seeing it.
Another question I have is how do I print all text between two html tags using the .. operator but exclude the tags themselves after reading in an html file?
Example:
plenty html up here
<pre>
a whole bunch of text here
</pre>
a whole lot more html here

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If this is confusing let me know?

In reply to Matching between START and END revisited by PenguinFeva

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