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Welcome to the Monastery abcd

The first assignement seems easy; why check for every char with the dot and not just newline ?

perl -E "say q(found ), $count=()=qq(abcdefab\ncdefa\nbcdef) =~ /a\n?b
+\n?c/gm, q( [abc] occurences)"

found 3 [abc] occurences
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By other hand the description you gave of your code, does not make so much sense to me (and you probably missing use strict; and use warnings; ).

 while ($line=<inputfile>){chomp $line; $string=$string.$line;}
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Infact what i understand is that you are accomulating every new line into $string and attempting the match for every generated string: so for a 100 lines file you are actually examining 5050 lines. this can be a problem.

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In reply to Re: Regular expressions across multiple lines by Discipulus
in thread Regular expressions across multiple lines by abcd

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