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Regex which includes blank line???
Hi everybody. You guys were great yesterday so I am back for more. Anyway, can somebody help me out with this one. I am trying to grab multiple lines of info from something like this: 11111111.START_fhsaf kdjfkajsdlkf kjdkfj skdjksjd aaaaaaaa_END_dkjfkjd 111111111.START_fhsaf kdjfkajsdlkf... -
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How can I print multiple lines in between expressions?
I have a file sort of like the one below. What I need to do is look for a pattern(START) and copy everything up until END. The delimeter is always a number with one decimal place and followed by a blank line. It is exactly for looking for data in a program we use for genome parsing... -
How can I print multiple lines in between expressions?
All that does is write the first pattern to the file. I need everything from the first time I see that pattern until the first empty line (new paragraph). I am not that great at this stuff and my brain hurts right now. Thanks for everything so far and anything in the future. -
How can I print multiple lines in between expressions?
I am trying to print out lines from a file into another file based on a couple of patterns. I sort of can do it from the command line using "perl -ne '/START/ .. /END/' INfile", but I am trying to put it into a more user friendly script. Anyway I can't figure out how to do it inside a perl...
