To add to my original question (and to also post here so it may be seen...)
Ok, I'm trying something new as well here and took your suggestions. I want to be able to pass arguments to my script so that it knows what file to open and what to look for in the file:

for example, you would call it with "my_script file "Info I want" 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$infile = shift @ARGV;
open (FILE, $infile) or die "Unable to open $infile: $!";

while (<FILE>) {
        foreach (@ARGV) {
                $pattern = $_;
                if ($pattern eq "Info I want") {
                        if (/^Info I want/../^Start of/) {
                                print unless ( /^Start of Info/ );
                        }
                }
        }
}

close (FILE);

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But this doesn't return what I need. It actually prints repeated "Info I want" to the screen.



Hi all, Here is an example of my file that I want to parse:

----------------
asdfsdfds
asdfasdf
blah blah blah

Info I Want

I want this line
And this line
And this line

Start of Info I don't want

blah blah
blah blah blah

So the only constant is the heading of the text I want "Info I want". But I don't know how many lines will be after that before we get to the line that reads "Start of Info I don't want" (also a constant).
Is there anyway to parse this? Right now I have: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$infile = "my_file";

open (FILE, $infile);
@text = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

foreach $line (@text) {
        $_ = $line;
        if (/^Info I want/../^Start of Info/) {
                print;
        }
}

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But that prints an extra line that I don't want:
START OF OUTPUT:
Info I Want

I want this line
And this line
And this line

Start of Info I don't want
END OF OUTPUT

In reply to Parse a block of text by annie06

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