Hi Programmers, <code> How are you? I need to write a program for my company. Here is what it must do. here are the contents of an Input file - input.txt -------------------- Adfa gewaf adsgad Eaq wr:e gtgad Eadg fadg aero uobu abfoasd aweouo iaustart:<tab charachter> I need all the text from here all the way through & till HERE end:tab charachter wereerr erwe vaerwe ere vaw:ew -------------------- I need to write a program in perl using multiline pattern matching, that will open the file input.txt, & print out the contents after start: till end:, as 1) a string. 2) in the same line format note that after start: there is a tab character. also after the end: there is a tab character. I need to only print the tab character after start: followed by all the contents till end: Basically the output should be this. -- <tab character> I need all the text from here all the way through & till HERE -- Please write me a program for the same. It will help. Thank you so much. -Prasanth.

In reply to HELP-MULTILINE PATTERN MATCHING by prasanthpronda

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