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And just to be a completist on this issue, building on scrutinizer's suggestion, here's the code that would do everything I asked for in the original message

awk 'NR>1{gsub(/[^\n]/,x,$1)}1' RS={...

This one intrigued me because I'm more of an awk person than a perl person...
awk '{print $2} NR==1' RS={ FS="} " ORS= file

I wasn't familiar with RS, FS and ORS as built in variables and now...

I don't read perl, but this solved my problem.

For reference, if I was testing for another character, e.g. between parenthesis or square brackets, are any of the above "{" or "}" special?

So...

I have some text in a file like so

This is {the
first day
of} my life.


What I would like as output is

This is
my life.


Any text between the curly braces is removed. In the...