First time poster on this forum. I periodically write scripts to parse data or to reduce server administration effort. Typically I write batch (ouch) or bash, and I have only written perl scripts a few times.

In this case I have spent a couple of hours looking for a solution to this and so far I have not had much luck, or I may not have understood the solutions that I had found. I am trying to match a range of lines, but only print the matching lines to a file if there is a specific string inside the initial match. I need to run this script on Windows (currently using Strawberry Perl), and I may end up handing the script to a non-technical user after setting up the environment to allow it to run.

This script successfully grabs data when only defining the beginning and end string match.

perl -nle "print if /\QLX*\E/ .. /\QCAS*\E/" "filename"

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Here is an example of the source file (UPDATE: added the proceeding text on the "00003" lines. I'm embarrassed that I missed this as I somehow didn't think it would matter...): 
LX*
other data
SVC*HC:00003
other data
CAS*
LX*
other data
SVC*HC:00001
other data
CAS*
LX*
other data
SVC*HC:00003
other data
CAS*

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Could someone point me in the right direction for how to print the matching range, between "LX* and CAS*", to a file only if the string "00003" exists within that range? So long as it can be run in Windows I am open to suggestions.

Thank you very much for your assistance. This script could potentially help save quite a lot of time on a weekly basis.

Sean

In reply to Matching range of text with another string in between by periodicalcoder

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