Okay here's what I learned today from a friend.
"You are sipping when you should be slurping."

Of course if I had told you all what I was doing before
that line you would have definitely seen my real problem.

Okay here's close to what I did have (I burned that code long ago): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

open(FH, '-'); # using STDIN instead of a real file.

 while (<FH>){
    my $entry = $_ =~ /:::(.*?):::/ms;
    open(FH2,'>filename');
    print FH2 "$entry";
 }

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Of course this didn't work because I was only working with
the first line and what I wanted was further in the file
and on multiple lines. Here's what I am using. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

open(FH,'-');
my $file = do {local $/; <FH>};
#A really elegant way to slurp an entire file and fast too.
#It creates a "disposable subroutine" in effect.
#I can't take credit for coming up with it though.
close FH;
        open(FH2,">filename");

        my $entry = $file =~ /:::(.*?):::/ms;
        #Thanks Corion
        print FH2 "$1\n";

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Thanks everyone. I liked the hint dws.
Thanks Corion for telling me about the not so greedy (.*?).
I liked the hint dws.
I learned from that hint but it wouldn't work for me until I slurped. :)
I'm REAL glad to know about perlre until I can make time for Mastering Regular Expressions

In reply to Re: Help!! Regular Expressions by providencia
in thread Regular expression to match text between two tags (was: Help!! Regular Expressions) by providencia

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