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in thread Perl reading in a file and getting a string in between two strings on different lines

Show input that doesn't work! See SSCCE

That's a classic, most likely you are doing it wrong.

The only possibility top make it foolproof is to quote regex metacharacters and to anchor the line's start with ^

print if /^\Q$beginString/ .. /^\Q$endString/;

See quotemeta

Cheers Rolf
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