Good day,monks.
It's not the first time I ask about this..
The folloing is the example of files with commands.
Start context
duplex
Half
Pass level = 2
negotiation
Pass level = 2
back-pressure
Pass level = 2
* Exit context *
There are many different contexts in this file.But they all end with the line "* Exit context *". What I need is to be able to to parse the lines between the closest "START Context" and "* END context *" at the time.
If I use the following code:
open DATA,"c://xxx.txt";
while(<DATA>)
{
   if (/START context/ .. /* End Context */ )
   {
      print unless /(START context |* End context *)/;
   }
}

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It prints all the lines (except what is in unless of course) between the first "Start context" and the last "* End context *". I tried to use non-greedy regular expression (.*?) ,but still didn't get the desired result. Can someone please help?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Edit by castaway, added code tags

In reply to I still can't get only the necessary lines from the file. by sashac88

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