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Pardon me if I say ick! Every time I see "flag variables" I cringe. That could be written better (IMHO) like so: perl -ne 'next unless /loop/../endloop/; print if /warn/;' file.txt

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Re:^3 regex help ...
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Nov 25, 2003 at 15:49 UTC
    or just 
    perl -ne 'print if /loop/../endloop/ and /warn/' file.txt

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Re: regex help ...
by delirium (Chaplain) on Nov 25, 2003 at 18:13 UTC
    Nice.

    From perlop:

    Each ".." operator maintains its own boolean state. It is false as long as its left operand is false. Once the left operand is true, the range operator stays true until the right operand is true, AFTER which the range operator becomes false again.

    I had no idea about this before I saw your post. That will clean up many of my scripts quite a bit. Thanks for pointing that out.

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