Posted by Dr John Stockton on 10/10/06 17:04

JRS: In article <1160363613.855662.104440@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
dated Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:13:33 remote, seen in news:alt.msdos.batch,
batman <uspensky@gmail.com> posted :
>
>i need to clear everything from this file except the data between the
>START-OF-DATA and END-OF-DATA using a batcj file...

MiniTrue :

mtr -n -x+ $1.txt (\A[^]*START-OF-DATA)([^]*)(END-OF-DATA[^]*) = \2

There may be a limit on the sizes of the three components of the file.

Otherwise, it's trivial in any HLL, even BASIC.

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