1999-11-19-02:55:39 Randal L. Schwartz: > Each record started with timestamp, and continued along successive > indented lines (one to many lines). > > Problem: he wanted just the records with "interesting". This is the same as continuation lines in email headers, and I was just recently reading mjd's description of Abigail's application of negative lookahead assertions for them. So how about perl -e 'undef $/;print grep { /interesting/i } split /^(?!\s)/m, <>' Have an appropriate amount of fun, -Benett