> You don't say how these sections of text are demarked, but 
> assuming the matching requirements for the start and end of 
> the demarked sections are reasonable, you can do what you 
> need much more simply.

[applause] Brilliant, and exactly what I was asking for; unfortunately, it showed me that I was asking for the wrong thing. :\ Not horribly wrong, just a little off - but there's too much interaction between the results of this routine and the rest of the 'cleanup' routine to separate the two like this. What ends up happening when I try to use it this way is that the sub sees each chunk of data as a stand-alone piece and wraps paragraph markers around it - which results in the 'raw' piece always being a separate paragraph. So, it seems that this bit of processing has to remain part of the 'cleanup' routine itself - that is, I need to extract those pieces, mangle the main body, stick those pieces back in, and then finish paragraphing everything.

Darn it. Well, the intent was good, anyway - and thanks to all you wizards, I've learned something. Thank you!

Incidentally, I had to modify your regex a bit so it would get rid of the tags themselves: 


my $raw_start = '[RAW]';
my $raw_stop = '[/RAW]';

$body =~ s[(?:^|\Q$raw_stop\E)(.+?)(?:\Q$raw_start\E|$)]{
        my $toModify = $1;
        $toModify = cleanup($toModify);
        $toModify;
    }seg;

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