Howdy everyone and merry perlmass! blah.txt contains the following data: 
junk junk
junk junk
start
not junk
not junk
end
junk junk

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more junk 
open (hFile, "blah.txt");
@d = <hFile>;
close hFile;

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now how would i extract only: 
start
not junk 
not junk
end

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from that array? thanks all :) I have looked around, all i can find is how to do this on a string, but then i risk loosing all the nowlines. p.s: would be better if this was possible in 1 line

In reply to extract range from array of data by theleftright

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