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Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] substituting on multiple lines

thanks ronald
for the quick reply. some of your code is new to me and i cant get it working
i guess my complete document should look like below: (this will just print the
entire file as it is already)
thanks
allan
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#!/pack/collect/bin/perl


open(MAINLATE, "somefile.html");

 {
 local $/;
 $text = <MAINLATE>;
 }

 $text =~ s!<style>.*</style>!!i;

 print $text;
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Ronald J Kimball wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:05:13PM +0200, allan juul wrote:
>
> > #!/pack/collect/bin/perl
> >
> > open(MAINLATE, "somefile.html");
> > @whatever = <MAINLATE>;
> > close(MAINLATE);
> >
> > foreach $line (@whatever)
> >
> >      {
> >       $line =~ s/<\/?style>//ig;
> >       $line =~ s/^[\s|\t]*\n//ig;
>
> That second one should be:
>
> $line =~ s/^\s*\n//g;
>
> or
>
> $line =~ s/^\s*$//g;
>
> Inside a character class, | is not a metacharacter, so [\s|\t] matches
> whitespace or the | character.  \s includes \t, so using both isn't
> necessary.
>
> >      }
> >
> >  print @whatever
> > ______________
> >
> > this should replace the two html <style> tags with nothing and remove
> > blank lines - no problem.
> > what if i want to replace everything in between as well?
> > so i end up with a somefile.html that look like:
> >
> > <html>
> > </html>
>
> First you want to read the whole file into a scalar:
>
> {
>   local $/;
>   $text = <MAINLATE>;
> }
>
> Then you can replace everything between <STYLE> and </STYLE>:
>
> $text =~ s!<STYLE>.*</STYLE>!!i;
>
> And then you can print out the modified string:
>
> print $text;
>
> Ronald
>
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