Hi Joe!
I've been away dealing with other problems..its not that I am ignoring you! For example, the Tax man bites tomorrow and I had to deal with that! Ouch!

More to the Perl point:
The use of the ... and .. pattern matching operators.

I've seen the ... op called the "flip-flop" operator. I don't know what these folks would call the .. operator. They are the same except that ... operates on multiple lines and .. operates on a single line.

Code examples are good so, here we go...!!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

while (<DATA>)
{
   print if (/^TITLE:/.../^\s*$/);
}

__DATA__
TITLE:
qasfd
asfdikyh6rf76
khlyouyih

TITLE:
oiqywrot6
09809g808
asdfafTITLE:

stuff stuff that doesn't matter
[asDFKJKLAFG]
ASDFKJAFKLJ TITLE:
  TITLE ASDFASFD
not a title paragraph  
TITLE:
98797
ABCD
EFG

__END__

#####  prints: #######
TITLE:
qasfd
asfdikyh6rf76
khlyouyih

TITLE:
oiqywrot6
09809g808
asdfafTITLE:

TITLE:
98797
ABCD
EFG

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The above prints all lines between and inclusive of the lines that start with TITLE and have a blank line. The .. operator does about the same but is restricted to one line instead of multiple lines.

$1 has to do with first match in the "regex", Regular Expression.

Think of the ... op as kind of a filter. Once you are inside this "filtered" set of lines or tokens, then you can further filter things to further exclude what you don't want. This is like a funnel that takes in gallons and produces "shot glasses" of output.

Having said that, I'm not sure that this is the best way for what you are doing. I am actually not quite sure what your app is. If things haven't worked out, post some more info and we will talk about it.

In reply to Re^5: Text Massage by Marshall
in thread Text Massage by GiJoe

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