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,

subroutine returning lines of text

2002-01-16 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi 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 need more starts and s