I am trying to read a file which looks something like
this - 
RULE=test
BEGIN
NUMOFRULES=2
STMT1=BEGIN
A
B
C
STMT1=END
STMT2=BEGIN
X
Y
Z
STMT2=END

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I can have any number of these STMT blocks

My code snippet is like -

open (RULE, "$rulefile") || die "Can't open $rulefile for reading $!\n
+";
while ( defined ($_ = <RULE>) ) {
    if (/RULE=$rule/../^END$/) {
        chomp $_;
        if ($_ =~ /^NUMOFRULES/) {
          # Get the number of rules
          @rulenos = split(/=/);
        }
        for ($i = 1; $i <= $rulenos[1]; $i++) {  
           if (/^STMT$i=BEGIN$/../^STMT$i=END$/) {
              if ( !($_ =~/^STMT/)) {
                print $_;
              }
           }
        }
     }
} 

-Getting-
A
A
B
B
C
C
...
-Want to get-
A
B
C
...

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Any idea how I can achieve this?

In reply to Problem in using range operator by tariqahsan

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