Greetings Folks:
I'm in a rut over something that should be straightforward but I can't get my head around. Since I've been working with other sections of this utility I'm developing (and some VB *cough*) I've been waiting for some devine inspiration to show me the light. Hopefuly a kind Monk can remove shadows.

Simply, I need to extract a the lines between two 'delimiters' if you will and save the extractions as separate files. The formating of the lines needs to stay in place and such. I found the dotdot (..) and dotdotdot (...) operator in the Cookbook thats finding the area right but I'm lost on capturing the match. 

Eg.
Input file is like this: The "===" is the delimiter.
================================\n
some buncha formatted ascii text\n
some buncha formatted ascii text\n
some buncha formatted ascii text\n
================================\n
second buncha formatted ascii text\n
second buncha formatted ascii text\n
second buncha formatted ascii text\n
================================\n

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I was doing something like this 

while(<ARGV>){
   next unless ($_ =~ /$delimiter/) #look for the ===
   push (@record, $_)               #make a temp array
   &saveRecord(@record)             #call the save sub
}
or
while(<ARGV>){
   next unless /$delimiter/ ... /delimiter/
   while(#something){
      push ...
}

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Anyways Im lost on how to grab up just the stuff between the delimiters, count em and save em...

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Range Operator Mysteries by PerlGrok

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