#!/usr/bin/env bash
domain=${1//\./\\.}
#replace . with \.
#so example.com becomes example\.com, this is because in regex . is used for matching any character
#so the regex would match on example.com and example7com, because . matches on "7"

check=$(perl -0777 -ne 'print $1 if /(^  member '$domain' \{.*[^}]*})/m' httpd_config.conf)
if [ ! -z "$check" ]; then
    echo "# Domain has been removed"
else
    echo "# We couldn't find the domain you wanted to remove, is it already removed?. Check the httpd_config.conf if you believe this is a mistake"
    exit 0;
fi

perl -0777 -p -i.bak -e "s/(^  member $domain \{.*[^}]*})/#thislinewillbedeletedj98311/gmi" httpd_config.conf  
perl -i -ne '/#thislinewillbedeletedj98311/ or print' httpd_config.conf
#aboves replaces the matched group with a string and random numbers, then second command searches for that string and deletes the line
#if anyone can figure out how to do above in oneline, feel free to let us know