extract all text (include space and carriage return) between two word with regex perl

Question

my $example=<<EO_STR;

Start

text1 

text2 


text3 Text4

Text5 text6

text7

End

EO_STR

on the following exemple. I want to extract all the text between Start and End(knowing that the text text extract contains spaces and new line and return charriot)

I tried this, but it does not work:

$example=~m/start\s+(.*?)\s+end/i

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I already mentioned my code that I tried to do, but it does not work — Red_Developper, Feb 14 '19 at 15:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '19 at 19:23

Line ending, i.e. \n, is a white space, so this can simply be written as

$example =~ /(?i:start)([\w\s]+)(?i:end)/

Is there a particular reason start and end have to be matched case-insensitive? Your example indicates that the regex might be simplified to:

$example =~ /Start([\w\s]+)End/

Red_Developper · Answer 2 · 2019-02-14T16:08:15.177

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I managed to find the solution thanks to you all

$example=~m/start([a-zA-Z0-9\p{P}\p{S} \s]*)end/i;

edited Feb 14 '19 at 16:08

answered Feb 14 '19 at 15:37

Red_Developper

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extract all text (include space and carriage return) between two word with regex perl

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