This looks like a solution based on ingenious emulation of Perl range operator with the advantage that it can accommodate multiple fragments.

Like in Perl range operator there is a variable this is true within the range and false outside.

Thank you !

Here is a slightly modified variant that I used for testing:

[0] # cat test_range2 #!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my $debug=0; my %marker = ( "AAAAAA\n" => { end => "BBBBBB\n", repl => <<'EOD', f11 f12 f13 EOD }, "CCCCCC\n" => { end => "DDDDDD\n", repl => <<'EOD', f21 f22 EOD }, ); state $section; while ( <DATA> ) { ($debug) && warn "$. $_"; if ( $section ) { if ( $_ eq $section->{end} ) { ($debug) && warn "========= End of the fragment detected a +t $.\n"; print $section->{repl}; $section = undef; print; } } elsif ( $section = $marker{$_} ) { ($debug) && warn "========= Start of the fragment detacted at +$.\n"; print; # print marker }else{ print; } } __DATA__ aaa aaa AAAAAA ccc ddd BBBBBB 111 222 333 CCCCCC 444 555 666 DDDDDD 777 888 999
That produces:
[0]  # perl  test_range2
aaa
aaa
AAAAAA
f11
f12
f13
BBBBBB
111
222
333
CCCCCC
f21
f22
DDDDDD
777
888
999

In reply to Re^2: The best way to replace several fragments of the file starting with the one pattern(marker) and ending with another pattern/marker. by likbez
in thread The best way to replace several fragments of the file starting with the one pattern(marker) and ending with another pattern/marker. by likbez

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