Question is u have a file A

ACEEWSMKIIWSDJDWKDKEKSSAQWE

and want to extract lines with option 5-10 with output like

SMKII

The code is 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

if ( $#ARGV < 2 )
{
  print "Usage: extract.pl firstLine lastLine filename\n";
  exit 1;
}

 my $start = $ARGV[0];
my $stop  = $ARGV[1];
my $file  = $ARGV[2];

open (FILE,$file) || die "Can't open file \"$file\".\n";

my $count=0;
while ()
{
  $count++;
  if ( $count >= $start  &&  $count <= $stop )
  {
    print ;
  }
}

close(FILE);

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But Gave error.What can be possible error?

In reply to print and extract the line by vis1982

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