I have a file like this: 
$ cat file
*start*of*junk*data*this is all junk data 01*end*of*junk*data*binary d
+ata binary data binary data
*start*of*junk*data*this is all junk data 02*end*of*junk*data*binary d
+ata binary data binary data
*start*of*junk*data*this is all junk data 03*end*of*junk*data*binary d
+ata binary data binary data
*start*of*junk*data*this is all junk data 04*end*of*junk*data*binary d
+ata binary data binary data

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My intention is to get only the binary data. Therefore, I am using the range operator (..) to go from "end*of*junk*data" to "*start*of*junk*data" Ofcourse, once I get the binary data I will use unpack() to view the data. Here is what I have so far. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $file="file";

open FILE, $file or die $!;

while (<FILE>) {
  if (m{"*end*of*junk*data*".*?}i .. m{"*start*of*junk*data*".*?}) { p
+rint; }
}

close (FILE);

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For some reason I am not able to get the "range" operator to only display binary data for me. Any ideas? TIA

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