Hi,

I'm relatively new to Perl and got some headache because I don't know how to solve this regex problem:

Assumed I have an ASCII file containing this lines:


c114: 0245, 0456, 1545

2555, 2444, 0344
0444, 3434, 1434


r145: 0544, 0688, 2988

1332, 0221, 0867
0655, 4548, 7463


c12: 2322, 0556, 3998

3545, 2002, 4500
5650, 0830, 3324
3433, 7070, 3404


It's easy to find the expression "r145:", but how to delete the complete paragraph starting with "r145:" and all subsequent lines starting with a tab inside this paragraph? In my example the paragraph has 3 lines, but it could also have 2 lines, or 6 or whatever.

Thanks

In reply to Regex: how to consider an unknown number of tabs? by Miraculix

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