Howdy:

I have a hopefully easy problem. I am trying to isolate information between two patterns to both capture the information between (here, the case name) and count the instances a particular word (here, the word Education but I would also like to count the number of words in general). I am able to isolate the beginning pattern and the end pattern across multiple line but I can't figure out how to capture and count ALL of the this text between the patterns. When I run my script, I only capture the last matched line and only count the last instance. I am not able to manipulate the entire string of text across multiple lines between the established patterns.

This is my script: 

my $casename = '';             
my $count = 0;

$/="";     # paragraph input mode

while (<IN>) {
    if (/^\d+\sof\s\d+\sDOCUMENTS$/mx ... /^No.\s\w+$/mx){
        if (/^(.*)/){
        $casename=$1;}
        if (/EDUCATION/g){
        $count++;}        
    next;}
}

print "Case Name: $casename\n";
print "Education: $count\n";

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Which does isolate the correct bounded text in a much larger file, as such: 

97 of 141 DOCUMENTS

HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; HALIFAX COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION; ROBESON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; CUMBERLAND
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA\TION; VANCE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION;
RANDY L. HASTY, individually and as guardian ad litem of
Randell B. Hasty; STEVEN R. SUNKEL, individually and as
guardian ad litem of Andrew J. Sunkel; LIONEL WHIDBEE,
individually and as guardian ad litem of Jeremy L. Whidbee;
TYRONE T. WILLIAMS, individually and as guardian ad litem of
Trevelyn L. Williams; D.E. LOCKLEAR, JR., individually and
as guardian ad litem of Jason E. Locklear; ANGUS B. THOMPSON
II, individually and as guardian ad litem of Vandaliah J.
Thompson; MARY ELIZABETH LOWERY, individually and as
guardian ad litem of Lannie Rae Lowery; JENNIE G. PEARSON,
individually and as guardian ad litem of Sharese D. Pearson;
BENITA B. TIPTON, individually and as guardian ad litem of
Whitney B. Tipton; DANA HOLTON JENKINS, individually and as
guardian ad litem of Rachel M. Jenkins; LEON R. ROBINSON,
individually and as guardian ad litem of Justin A. Robinson,
Plaintiffs and ASHEVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION; BUNCOMBE
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF
EDUCATION; DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION; WAKE
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; WINSTON-SALEM/FORSYTH COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCATION; CASSANDRA INGRAM, individually and as
guardian ad litem of Darris Ingram; CAROL PENLAND,
individually and as guardian ad litem of Jeremy Penland;
DARLENE HARRIS, individually and as guardian ad litem of
Shamek Harris; NETTIE THOMPSON, individually and as guardian
ad litem of Annette Renee Thompson; OPHELIA AIKEN,
individually and as guardian ad litem of Brandon Bell,
Plaintiff-Intervenors 

v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA and the
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Defendants

No. 530PA02

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But, the returned information is as follows: 

Case Name: No. 530PA02
Education: 2

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Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks so much for your help! Can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Best, Michael

In reply to Capture/Counting text between patterns across multiple lines by micwood

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