From: Jim Bob Date: 2003-06-25T08:13:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Operate on a range of lines in a file. Thanks, everyone. That line =~ /START/ .. line =~ /END/ thing is exactly what I was trying to remember. Thanks, Paul, too, for an implementation of one of the "naive" ways I had mentioned which is, indeed, much nicer and more concise than the way I had been doing it.