Hello Perl experts, I am pretty new to Perl and I am with no luck been trying to print all lines between two keywords that I have defined.

Not sure what the heck I am doing wrong.

I have a variable "$linesFromFile" which contains all data from a file. If I print the $linesFromFile I get correct results. Now what I am not getting results for is I am trying to print all lines between the two strings shown below, sometimes the (start and end) strings only appear once, sometimes many times. What I am trying to do is print all lines for every time the two strings are found.

Not sure how to on match and save all lines between to search strings. I tried the save () and print $1 with no luck also.

Thanks for the help in advance.
for ( $linesFromFile ) {
    if ( /^StartTr1/gm .. /^oflTr1/gm ) {
        print;
    }
}

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SAMPLE FILE 
StartTr1
sample 1
sample 1
sample 1
sample 1
SAMPLE 1
oflTr1
nothing
nothing
nothing
StartTr1
sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
last line before sample 2
oflTr1
junk
junk
junk

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RESULTS DESIRED 
sample 1
sample 1
sample 1
sample 1
SAMPLE 1

sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
sample 2
last line before sample 2

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In reply to Print all lines between to keywords by perlnewbie9292

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