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How do I get everything between first and second match?

testerV
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Nov 28, 2012, 7:20 PM

Post #1 of 5 (2631 views)

How do I get everything between first and second match?	Can't Post

Hi!
How do I get everything between first and second match including matched lines?
I got this script but I stuck again with the “while” loop.
while (my $line = <$itf_fh>) {
next until $line =~ /^startA/;
print $tmpout_fh $line ;

while (<$itf_fh>) {
last if $line =~/^stopA/;
print $tmpout_fh $line; ;
}
}

Code

rovf
Veteran

Nov 29, 2012, 3:47 AM

Post #2 of 5 (2625 views)

Re: [testerV] How do I get everything between first and second match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

If you get stuck in the inner "while", it must be because no line starting with 'stopA' is found.

However, you don't need the nested loops. Have a look at the operators .. (double dot) and ... (triple dot) in perldoc perlop
(see the section "Range Operators" - they have a coding example which might suit your needs).

testerV
Novice

Nov 29, 2012, 5:59 PM

Post #3 of 5 (2618 views)

Re: [rovf] How do I get everything between first and second match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you Rovf!

Chris Charley
User

Nov 29, 2012, 6:04 PM

Post #4 of 5 (2618 views)

Re: [testerV] How do I get everything between first and second match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Using the double dot, .., operator that rovf mentioned, the code could be as follows.

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
print grep /^startA/ .. /^stopA/, <DATA>; 
 
__DATA__ 
one 
line 
startA 
meat 
of 
the 
data 
stopA 
nothing 
here

Documentation for grep is here. Also, here is the documentation for the range (double dot) operator.

testerV
Novice

Dec 3, 2012, 1:04 PM

Post #5 of 5 (2599 views)

Re: [Chris Charley] How do I get everything between first and second match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks Chris!
Grep will work but my file has 1.5 to 3 millions lines, so I'm not sure if I should use grep. I thought using <while> loop is safe way to use with a big file.
Thank you again!
testerV

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