so a different way to do this is with a flag and What I did was use the $on as a flag to see when to stop printing and to start so hope this helps you! if anyone knows how to a prompt string in the find part: where you search for the word you want to start from and end at if anyone can give me that then thank you! also the die thing i was told that you can have it on the same line as the open I'm relatively new to Perl so if you can also give me some pointers and shortcuts.

#!/\\perl
#

use strict;
use warnings;


# Put the file name in a string variable
# so we can use it both to open the file
# and to refer to in an error message
# if needed.

my $fileName ;
my $success ;
my $on = 0;


    
    
#   Hard-code the name of the file we're going to read.
#   This is the script itself.

$fileName = '/\\rat09awp\ccscripts\Islam\test.log';

#   Attempt to open the file. We create a file handle called "IN".
#   Open returns a true value if it succeeded, an undefined
#   value if it didn't succeed.
$success = open( IN, "<$fileName" );

            while ( <IN> ){
                if ($_ =~ /Duplicate remedy_id:/){
                    print $_;
                    $on = 1;
                }
                elsif($on){
                    if ($_ =~ /Duplicate ip_address:/) {
                        last;
                    }
                else{ print $_;}
                }
    
        #   We have read all the lines from the file.
        #   Close the file.
        }
    

close( IN );
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