Hi,

Is this solving your problem. It solves for the sample data you have posted

use strict;

my $target_data="</TABLE>\n\n2\n<PAGE>\n\nRISK/RETURN SUMMARY AND FUND
+ EXPENSES\n\n\nPRIME MONEY MARKET FUND";

my $pattern='(\n\s*[0-9]{1,3}\s*\n\s*<page>\s*\n)(.*)(\n*)';
$target_data =~ s/$pattern/" " x length($1).$2."\n" x length($3)."\n" 
+x length($1)/gie;

print $target_data;

print "\n\n";

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The output is 

</TABLE>            RISK/RETURN SUMMARY AND FUND EXPENSES














PRIME MONEY MARKET FUND

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If the "\n" looks too many then you can change my regx concatenation of the regx to minimize it 
"\n" x length($3)."\n" x length($1)/gie;

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Thanks
SasiKumar

In reply to Re: The same pattern searching by sasikumar
in thread Replacing the pattern by agynr

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