[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How can I work with extracting only the matched pattern in text in PERL just as with 
> UNIX sed below:
> 
> sed -n -e /\Starting_text.*/s/.*\(Starting_text.*Ending_text\).*/\1/p
> 
> example from UNIX piping file contents to the above sed:
> 
> 
> blah blah Starting_text blah Ending_text blah blah
> 
> ~~would return:
> 
> Starting_text blah Ending_text

You could either use s2p to convert the sed to Perl or
rewrite it in Perl which would be fairly simple.


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