Stevieb and GrandFather, thank you for your replies. I feel that we are heading in the right direction, but I have a few questions.

First, I should have been more thorough in my question. What you gave me does apply, but I also need the first 14 lines and the last 3 lines of the file. I wanted to make sure that you had this information.

Steveieb, I used your code but I get no results. I used your code as is, and the perl command line window got no output. If I define the output file the file gets created with no content. On a guess I changed the input file name to a nonexistent file and I got the same results, and no errors. Please pardon my noobness, and I hope that you can help :)

UPDATED: Here is what I have at the moment as I am trying to output the results to another file (the .pl file sits in the same directory as the input/output files):

use warnings;
use strict;

#Note that this script throws errors when pull file paths are defined.
#Must be run from the path that the input/output files exist.

open my $fhi, '<', 'cr835.txt' or die "$!";
open my $fho, '>', 'cr_output.txt' or die "$!";

#Prints the first 14 lines to the output file
while(<>) {
  1 .. 14 ? print : last;
}

#Prints content starting with LX* and ending with CAS*
#but only if 00003 exists
{
    local $/ = 'CAS*';
    while (<$fhi>){
        print $fho if /LX\*.*(?=00003$)/s;
    }
}

#Prints the last 3 lines of the file
while (<F>) {
    $. < $lines - 3 and print while <F>
}

close $fhi;
close $fho;

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