Im trying to write the script for my task which is to extract text between to strings on separate lines, while I have the command to run it from the command line I am not sure how to do it in order to get the results into the file, any ide how to do it ? Heres is one liner that works fine :

perl -ne "BEGIN { @ARGV = map glob, @ARGV }; print if /^start\b$/ .. /^end\b$/ " input/*

so far I have this routine which prints entire content of the files which is not what I want :(:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $record = "";
opendir (DIR, "C:/Users/input/") or die "$!";
my @files = readdir DIR;
close DIR;
splice (@files,0,2);

open(MYOUTFILE, ">>output/output.txt");
foreach my $file (@files) {
open (CHECKBOOK, "binput/$file")|| die "$!";
while ($record = <CHECKBOOK>) {

     if ($record=~ /^start\b$/ .. /^end\b$/)  {
     print MYOUTFILE "$file;$record\n";

    }
}
   close(CHECKBOOK);

}
close(MYOUTFILE);

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