There may be other ways than this. If the file is large (MB or GB), you might not want this method. It reads the whole file into an array, @data, before printing.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my (@buffer, @data); while (<DATA>) { if (/^Group/) { push @data, [@buffer] if @buffer > 2; @buffer = $_; } else { push @buffer, $_; } } push @data, [@buffer] if @buffer > 2; { local $" = ''; print join("\n", map "@$_", @data); }
Chris

In reply to Re^3: Shorten a list... by Cristoforo
in thread Shorten a list... by la

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