This solution only addresses the original problem, not the subsequent refinements requested by newperlbie. It uses a file slurp and multi-line matching rather than a flip-flop so might not be useful for large files.

johngg@abouriou ~/perl/Monks $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
open my $inFH, q{<}, \ <<EOD or die $!;
aaa23    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    test
bbb34    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    test
dfsad324    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    test
efdewr23    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    dev
dsarfew234    fgfgdf    pppp    skip    dev
dqewr2321    fgfgdf    pppp    skip    prod
sdsw32    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    prod
asdw234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    prod
sadw2342    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    qa
deww234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    qa
qdrqew234    fgfgdf    pppp    block    qa
swd234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
swdq234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
dfwfr43    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
drqewr234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
aaa23    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    test
bbb34    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    test
EOD
do { local $/; <$inFH>; } =~ m{([^\n]+dev.*manage\n)}ms && print $1;'
efdewr23    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    dev
dsarfew234    fgfgdf    pppp    skip    dev
dqewr2321    fgfgdf    pppp    skip    prod
sdsw32    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    prod
asdw234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    prod
sadw2342    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    qa
deww234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    qa
qdrqew234    fgfgdf    pppp    block    qa
swd234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
swdq234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
dfwfr43    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage
drqewr234    fgfgdf    pppp    Released    manage

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I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: Reading multiple lines from text file by johngg
in thread Reading multiple lines from text file by newperlbie

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