I like graff's suggestion of using the s modifier in your regex if the file's slurped into $filedata. Given that, here's another solution to grabbing those two sections, and it then places them into an array of arrays @arrBlocks (where $arrBlocks[0] is an array of the first block's elements and $arrBlocks[1] is an array of the second block's elements):

for($filedata =~ /#begin\d*?\n(.*?)#end\d*?\n/gs) {
    push @arrBlocks, [split "\n"];
}

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The regex matches your pattern and can be used for endless #begin/#end pairs that end with digits (e.g., #begin3/#end3, ...). If you started with #begin0/#end0, then $arrBlocks[0] would contain that block's elements.

Hope this helps!

In reply to Re: grab 2 blocks of texts from file by Kenosis
in thread grab 2 blocks of texts from file by Anonymous Monk

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