Find shortest matches between two strings

Question

I have a large log file, and I want to extract a multi-line string between two strings: start and end.

The following is sample from the

Answer 1

Do it with code - basic state machine:

open = False
tmp = []
for ln in fi:
    if 'start' in ln:
        if open:
            tmp = []
        else:
            open = True

    if open:
        tmp.append(ln)

    if 'end' in ln:
        open = False
        for x in tmp:
            print x
        tmp = []