Extracting specific lines with Perl

Question

I am writing a perl program to extract lines that are in between the two patterns i am matching. for example the below text file has 6 lines. I am matching load balancer and

Answer 1

If you prefer a command line variation:

perl -ne 'print if m{\*load balancer\*}..m{\*end\*} and !m{\*load|\*end}' file