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newbie - multiline substitution
Thanks for responding, Paul. I see what you are trying to do. Unfortunately, it just returns a space. Also, I think that you are right- in doing something like that I would have to somehow loop through, because if it did match, it might just do it for the first occurrence in the file, and not... -
newbie - multiline substitution
I am a perl newbie. I am trying to write a simple preprocessor to strip out some lines from a file. Basically if "somestring" is found, it should delete all content from that point until ";" is found. It does this ok right now if it is only on the same line. Can anyone please help...
