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The while (<INF>) only reads one line at a time (where a "line" is defined by the input record separator, $/ which is a newline by default). Since you're only pulling in one line at a time, you'll never match across multiple lines. You need to reset the record separator. For example:

{ # Set the record separator to match the data. # In this example I have a blank line between # the lines I want to match, so set $/ to two # newlines. # Note that I'm setting $/ in its own data block (the empty # brackets) to localize the record separator change. $/ = "\n\n"; while (<DATA>) { if(/First line of text[\n]second line of text[\n]in the third +line I have (\d*\.\d*)/s) { print "Captured ($1)\n"; } } } __DATA__ First line of text second line of text in the third line I have 3.14159 Here is another line of text second line of text third line has 1.41421356 First line of text second line of text in the third line I have 1.73205081

Note that due to the regex, only the first and third numbers will be output.

You could also set the record separator to "First line of text", but keep in mind that you'll need to remove that bit from the regex:

$/ = "First line of text"; while (<DATA>) { if(/[\n]second line of text[\n]in the third line I have (\d*\. +\d*)/s) { print "Captured ($1)\n"; } }

Added: You could also undef the separator and match globally:

{ $/ = undef; my $data = <DATA>; my @array = $data =~ /First line of text[\n]second line of text[\n +]in the third line I have (\d*\.\d*)/g; for (@array) { print "Captured $_\n"; } }


In reply to Re: multi-line parsing by Nkuvu
in thread multi-line parsing by amit223

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