Hi all, New perl user. I have a text file with some paragraphs in it. I am trying to delete a repetitive piece of text. The file looks something like this:

keep keep keep keep keep i want to start deleting here blah blah blah blah blah blah blah up to the newline.

keep keep keep keep keep i want to start deleting here blah blah blah blah blah blah blah up to the newline.

keep keep keep keep keep i want to start deleting here blah blah blah blah blah blah blah up to the newline.

the text where i want to start deleting is always the same phrase and i want to delete the paragraph from that point until the newline in that paragraph. It isn't in every paragraph. I need to do it for a few paragraphs from the file.

I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

----------------------------UPDATE---------------------------------------
Thanks all,

That was incredibly helpful. I wound up using a stream variable for the file and instead of looping through just used a global replace, so my code looked like this:

$stream =~ s/$deleteFromPhrase.*//g;

It works perfectly :)

Loving Perl!

Thanks!

In reply to Trying to delete text from a text file by nervousmark

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