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Asked: June 15, 20262026-06-15T18:40:39+00:00 2026-06-15T18:40:39+00:00

I have following patterns in a text file. ###################### # ADD=123 New Comment ######################

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I have following patterns in a text file.

######################
# ADD=123 New Comment
######################

if ($ADD==123)

Out of this, the following lines are variable

# ADD=124 Old Comment

if ($ADD==1234)

I tried pcregrep for multiline greping, but I am not good with regex. Any pointers how to extract this patterns.

[root@srv admin]# pcregrep -M '######################\n#*\n' text.php
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    2026-06-15T18:40:41+00:00Added an answer on June 15, 2026 at 6:40 pm

    With sed:

    sed -n '/###[#]*/,/if (\$ADD/{p}' input
    
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