in reply to Regular Expression problem when Extracting Start\ VALUE \End

Greetings all,
In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI my suggestion is to use \Q\E. 
sub getInfoFromSingleLineMultiLineFile
{
    #args and file opening...
    while($line = <IFH>){
        if($line =~ /\Q$stag\E(.*?)\Q$etag\E/){
            push(@wanted_substrings,$1);
        }
    }
    return @wanted_substrings;
}

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That should get you what you want.

-InjunJoel
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