Hi all ! First time posting ... so - please be gentle :)

I want to delete a section of text from a *.html file which contains this text. So, I have to treat it as a multi-line or whatever it is called.



<ADDRESS>
someone@some.domain.co.uk
</ADDRESS>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I feel I've tried everything ... -but obviously not, since I haven't figured it out yet. I want to take away the section between the start and end of the <ADDRESS> tag. If I try to take out only the <ADDRESS> it works - the regular expression for the email is also working (on their own), but once I try to do both at the same time I fail missearbly.

perl -i.bak -ne 'if(s!<ADDRESS>.(\w[-._\w]*\w@\w[-._\w]*\w\.\w{2,3})!!mgis) {next;} print;' index.html

In reply to one line regular expression - help needed by Thalamus

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