On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:06:46 -0600
Chris Stinemetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to only work with the data that has a line with |68| in
> it print that line and then print each subsequent lines in that match
> /\|7\|\d+\|\d+/ until #END is reached and then repeat for the rest of
> the input data.
OTTOMH,
perl -lne '/\|68\|/ .. /\#END/ && /\|7\|\d+\|\d+/ && print'
For an explanation, look up ".." in perldoc perlop - the flip-flop
operator - it evaluates to true once the first condition (in this case,
the current line matches the regex /\|68\|/ becomes true), and
continues to evaluate to a true value until the second condition is true
(in this case, the current line contains "#END"), at which point it goes
back to false again. Combining that with a check for the line
containing what you want gets you most of the way there; I think it'll
skip the start & end lines though, so you'll probably want to modify
the last regex to include them.
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