I'll try to answer one of your questions...
>I'm having some trouble trying to easily remove lines from a data file
using
>a regular expression. I can do it by reading the file in
>a line at a time then deciding whether to chuck it or write it out. My data
>looks something like this -
[Data removed]
>What I need to do is to remove all of the 'tags' from the file
>my best attempt so far has been
>
>$file_with_no_tags =~ s/<<TAG:.+>>//sig;
>
>which removes everything from the first '<<TAG:' to the last '>>'
>
>Is their a better way? (Actually any way that works would be better)
The way to make a + or * in a regexp non-greedy is to add a ? after it, so
your line would be:
$file_with_no_tags =~ s/<<TAG:.+?>>//sig;
Hope this helps,
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