perl -pe for blocks of lines instead of single lines

[Markus Dehmann]

I just found the answer to my own problem. I'm gonna share this so
people can find it via google:

I have a data file that contains blocks of data, separated by empty
lines:

line1
line2

line1
line2

Now I want to read it on the command line, one block at a time. But
perl -pe '...' reads only single lines.

The answer is: Use -00

So, this:
perl -00 -ne 'chomp; print "<BLOCK>$_</BLOCK>\n"' data.txt

Prints
<BLOCK>line 1
line2</BLOCK>
<BLOCK>line 1
line2</BLOCK>

Just wanted to share ...

Markus

 

[Tad McClellan]

I just found the answer to my own problem.

The perlrun.pod (how to execute the Perl interpreter) manpage
contains the answer to your problem too.