Thanks to everyone for their help!

Here is the final code that gave me the best result:

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import os, re

file = open("200214092341eriswor_1_56.txt", "r")

s = file.read()

r = re.compile('"TREES"\s*(.*?)s*"END TREES"', re.DOTALL)

trees = r.findall(s)

for tree in trees:

    print tree

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Kind regards,

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