Hi perl geniuses :p I'm trying to grab 2 "sections" of text from a file, i use a marker to tell the program where to begin and end at each section.. here is my attempt. 
@text1 = ();
@Section = split("\n", $filedata);
foreach (@Section) {

   if (/^#begin/ .. /^#end/) {
      $eval .= "$_\n";
   }
   if (/^#begin2/ .. /^#end2/) {
      push(@text1, $_);
  }

} 

@arrBlock = ();
for ($x=1;$x<@text1-1;$x++) {
push(@arrBlock,$text1[$x]);
}

this seems valid, i can print $arryBlock[index] but i cant do a foreac
+h loop through it? here is  an example file:

#begin
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
#end

#begin2
xxx
ccc
bbb
#end2

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now text1 contains the first block of content and arrblock contains the second.. i know i suck at variable names heh

In reply to grab 2 blocks of texts from file by Anonymous Monk

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