Howdy, Im trying to do something with all the contents of test.txt that starts with
a specific point in the text and ends with another specific point in
the text called #end. Right now this code wont return any
errors or warnings or anything at all actually... I messed
it up somehow... There are multiple #end strings but it should go to
the first one it sees from the start so it shouldnt matter right? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open("test", "<test.txt");
my @array = <test>;
my @ex = grep(!/^####/, @array);
my @test2 = grep(/#bg\sas,([a-z0-9])#end/, @ex);

print @test2;

close("test");

    __DATA__
####---------------------k
####---------------------l
####---------------k
#bg at,super
spaz
razz
tazz
kazz
#end
#bg as,clock
brock
spock
mock
sock
#end
#bf as,lost
fluff
muff
tuff
cuff
#end
#bf aa,sauce
dock
spork
fork
torque
#end
####-------------d-d
####------g-d

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