Greetings monks,

How does one break out a segment of lines if it doesnt match a certain criteria?

For example, I've got a text file like this:

START

important data

important data

END

START

Nothing interesting here, skip the rest of this start and end.

STOP

START

important data - more cool stuff continue here

important data - ditto

END

As I'm pulling data in between the start and end blocks, if I find nothing I need for a particular start/end range then how can I just skip entirely and start on the next START segment?

Thanks for any help!! 

  while(<F>) 
         {
            chomp;
            if (/^<START/.../^<\/END/) {

               if ($_ !~ m/cool data/gi) 
               {
                 break this current START ... END block 
               }                     
            }   
         }

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In reply to Breaking out of a matching block by yoda54

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