in reply to regex problem
It's not clear to me what you are trying to achieve, but maybe the following will point you in the right direction:
use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>) { next if ! (/Line above/ .. /Line below/); next if ! /Description\s+"([^"]*)"/; print "Found $1 in line $.\n"; } __DATA__ Line above Description "xyz" Line below Line above Line below
Prints:
Found xyz in line 2
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