From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T09:50:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the version number of the ruby interpreter


Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
>
> while gets
>     print if $_ =~ /start/ .. $_ =~ /end/
> end


That works.  The equivalent Awk program is:

/start/,/end/

An Awk program to skip blank lines at the beginning of the file
(including lines containing only spaces)
and to print the rest of the lines:

NF,0