I do have some sample text in my origional post. That is simular to what can be found in my text file, except there are 26 of one type of tool, 20 of another type, and 10 of another. I am only conserned with the first 26. My actual code is:

while (<PD_FILE>){
    if (/$tool_number/)
        $continue = 1;
     }
    if (/$end_tool/)
         $continue = 0;
      }
     if ($continue){
        print $_;
       }
}
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the value for $tool_number is Tool01 which will and does give $end_tool a value of Tool02. Everything that I have checked up to this point seems to work except the loop. I tried some code that was posted as a reply to another question.

while (<^(*?)$tool_number(.*)$/) {
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that did not seem to work either.

stuffy

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