#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my @blocklines; my $inblock = 0; open(my $IFH, '<', 'blockextract.txt') or die($!); while((my $line = <$IFH>)) { chomp $line; if($line =~ /parameters\ after\ change/) { # Start of a block we want to read $inblock = 1; next; } # Skip handling line unless we are in a block next unless($inblock); if($line =~ /NRG\ location/) { # Block ends here # Do whatever you want to do to the block lines # stored in @blocklines. # I'm just dumping them to STDOUT print "*** START ***\n"; print join("\n", @blocklines), "\n"; print "*** END ***\n\n"; # Clean up block @blocklines = (); $inblock = 0; next; } # just some line within the interesting block # remember it for later in @blocklines push @blocklines, $line; next; } close $IFH; exit(0);