My code was just a proof-of-concept to show how to use the range operator for this task. For a working script operating on files “log1.log”, “logX.log”, and “logZ.log”, say, — and assuming you want all the output to go to a single file “output.txt” (do you?) — you would do (untested):

my @filenames = qw(log1.log logX.log logZ.log);

open(my $out, '>', 'output.txt') or die "Cannot open file 'output.txt'
+ for writing: $!";

for (my $filename (@filenames)
{
    open(my $in, '<', $filename) or die "Cannot open file '$filename' 
+for reading: $!";

    while (<$in>)
    {
        ...

            if (/AS \s+ $keyword/ix)
            {
                print $out join('', @block);
                last;
            }

        ...
    }

    close $in or die "Cannot close file '$filename': $!";
}

close $out or die "Cannot close file 'output.txt: $!";

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^3: Extracting a block of text between start and end point by Athanasius
in thread Extracting a block of text between start and end point by shonurulez

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