i'm curious why you overlooked my solution. although it may not be the "best" way, my solution was created from lessons i learned from posts like Code Smarter, and Death to Dot Star!

although my solution breaks on multiple START/STOP tags, this requirement was not specified in the question. i would add this functionality for a more general solution, but i'd also need to know if it should handle nested tags or not.

my solution will, however, match START/STOP tags anywhere in the input stream, as was specified by the code in the original post. it will work if the STOP tag does not exist, as i got from the original data (granted this might be a typo). and it matches the behaviour of including the START/STOP tags in the results. mine includes it outputs a string, instead of a list, but that is easily remedied with split either in the return statements, or to be done outside the find_between_tags() function.

~Particle

In reply to (particle) Re: Re: Efficiently Extracting a Range of Lines (was: Range This) by particle
in thread Efficiently Extracting a Range of Lines (was: Range This) by skazat

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