Hello shonurulez, and welcome to the Monastery!

The Perl range operator (.. in scalar context) is useful for this kind of task:

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($start, $keyword, $end) = ('PROC SQL', 'DELQ_STATUS', 'QUIT');
my  @block;

while (<DATA>)
{
    if (/$start/i .. /$end/i)
    {
        push @block, $_;
    }

    if (/$end/i)
    {
        for (@block)
        {
            if (/AS \s+ $keyword/ix)
            {
                print join('', @block);
                last;
            }
        }

        @block = ();
    }
}

__DATA__
...

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(The contents of file “log1.log” are included immediately following the __DATA__ line; but I omit them here for the sake of brevity.) The output is as follows:

16:19 >perl 1275_SoPW.pl
481        proc sql;
482           create table work.INPUT_ACCT_POOL_3 as
483              select
484                 Acct_Key,
485                 Arrears_Bal_Amt,
486                 ARREARS_DAYS,
531                    end) as DELQ_STATUS length = 8
532                    format = 8.
533                    informat = 8.
534                    label = 'DELQ_STATUS',
535                 Arrears_Start_Date,
536                 PERIODENDING,
537                 PRODUCT_TYPE_CODE
538           from &SYSLAST
SYMBOLGEN:  Macro variable SYSLAST resolves to WORK.INPUT_ACCT_POOL_2

539           ;
NOTE: A CASE expression has no ELSE clause. Cases not accounted for by
+ the WHEN clauses will result in a missing value for the CASE express
+ion.
NOTE: Compressing data set WORK.INPUT_ACCT_POOL_3 decreased size by 35
+.05 percent.
      Compressed is 9043 pages; un-compressed would require 13923 page
+s.
NOTE: Table WORK.INPUT_ACCT_POOL_3 created, with 5986698 rows and 17 c
+olumns.

540        quit;

16:19 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Extracting a block of text between start and end point by Athanasius
in thread Extracting a block of text between start and end point by shonurulez

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