in reply to extracting substrings

If u wish you can try this code

$sequence=' 1 sen 192 gube 433 siva raj 280 shank prasad 600 san zia 753'; $START1 = 1; $STOP1 = 280; $START2 = 192; $STOP2 = 433; $START3 = 600; $STOP3 = 753; for $k(1..3) { $s='START'."$k"; $en='STOP'."$k"; print "******start****"; (@arr)=$sequence=~m#$$s(.*?)$$en#gsi; $ar = join(" ", @arr); $ar=~s/\d//gi; $ar=~s/\n+/\n/gi; print "$ar"; print "******end***\n"; }


output:
******start****
sen
gube
siva
raj
******end***
******start****
gube
******end***
******start****
san
zia
******end***