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use strict; use warnings; my $flag = 0; my $start = 'd1'; my $end = 'd4'; my @array; while (<DATA>) { chomp; if(/$start/){ $flag = 1; @array = (); } elsif(/$end/) { $flag = 0; print "@array\n"; } else{ push @array, $_ if $flag; } }
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