Hi,

I program perl for a while now and still suck at regexes.

My file looks like: 

STARTP
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
ENDP
STARTP
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
TITLE
some gibberish
some more gibberish
ENDTITLE
ENDP

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I read following link: "How do I extract all text between two keywords like start and end?". But it didn't make me any wiser.

I want to get everyting from STARTP until ENDP. En then cut stuff up between TITLE and ENDTITLE. But if I do like the suggested link I get everything fron first STARTP until last ENNDP. And I want to match first from First STARTP until first ENDP in the file and then from next STARTP until next ENDP. And the same for TITLE and ENDTITLE.

And no there is no recursion in these tags.

thanx



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In reply to Regex for simple parsing job by toadi

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