Ok, I'm trying something new as well here and took your suggestions. I want to be able to pass arguments to my script so that it knows what file to open and what to look for in the file:

for example, you would call it with "my_script file "Info I want" 


#!/usr/bin/perl

$infile = shift @ARGV;
open (FILE, $infile) or die "Unable to open $infile: $!";

while (<FILE>) {
        foreach (@ARGV) {
                $pattern = $_;
                if ($pattern eq "Info I want") {
                        if (/^Info I want/../^Start of/) {
                                print unless ( /^Start of Info/ );
                        }
                }
        }
}

close (FILE);

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But this doesn't return what I need. It actually prints repeated "Info I want" to the screen.

In reply to Re^2: Parse a block of text by annie06
in thread Parse a block of text by annie06

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