Re^3: Two line match

The -p option enables line-by-line processing, so you have to change perls notion of a line:

perl -pe 'BEGIN { $/ = undef }; s/---\n---/---/g;'
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Re^4: Two line match by jrosenfeld (Initiate) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:38 UTC
That works except that it only converts two lines of ----- into one. I wanted it to be able to convert any number of lines on ----- into 1 line of it. Shouldn't the /g do that? Jeff	[reply]
Re^5: Two line match by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2008 at 15:43 UTC
The `/g` never handles overlapping matches in order to avoid infinite loops. But you can modifiy your regex: `m/----(?:\n----)+/----/g`	[reply] [d/l] [select]