RE: subroutine returning lines of text

2002-01-16 Thread Gary Hawkins
> im wondering how i can make a subroutine that will return all text > lines between certain marks such as START and STOP: > > text file: > > START > text > is here > and there > is > a > lot of it > STOP > > so i would like to call the subroutine with the arguments START and > STOP (because i may

Re: subroutine returning lines of text

2002-01-16 Thread Briac Pilpré
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > im wondering how i can make a subroutine that will return all text > lines between certain marks such as START and STOP: Here's simple way to do it. It uses the '..' operator (see perldoc perlop for more info about it). Note that if START and STOP are in the same line,