There is probably a clever way to do it with grep and Range Operators, but here is a way using state variables. You should change the flags to more meaningful names for your application:
use strict; use warnings; my $flag1 = 0; my $flag2 = 0; my @lines; while (<DATA>) { $flag2 = 1 if $flag1 and /A1/; $flag1 = 1 if /SUBSCRIBER/; push @lines, $_ if $flag1; if (/NATIONAL/) { print @lines if $flag2; $flag1 = 0; $flag2 = 0; @lines = (); } } __DATA__ foo bar SUBSCRIBER goo hoo nada NATIONAL SUBSCRIBER goo A1 NATIONAL junk junk junk
Prints:
SUBSCRIBER goo A1 NATIONAL

Update: Ok, here's my solution with Range Operators:

use strict; use warnings; my $flag = 0; my @lines; while (<DATA>) { if (/SUBSCRIBER/ .. /NATIONAL/) { push @lines, $_; $flag = 1 if /A1/; if (/NATIONAL/) { print @lines if $flag; $flag = 0; @lines = (); } } }

In reply to Re: Text Extraction by toolic
in thread Text Extraction by JonDepp

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