I'm having a wicked time setting up a pattern for the following: I have a text doc that contains info like the following: <space> \\dir1\<return> group\name1<return> group\name2<return> group\name3<return> <space> \\dir2\<return> group\name4<return> group\name5<return> group\name6<return> <space> I need to go through the list and find the "group\name" I am searching for (using $search as a variable), dump all the info pertaining to where that group is to a file handle. For ex: If I am searching for "group\name5" , I want to return the following info: \\dir2\<return> group\name4<return> group\name5<return> group\name6<return> I've setup a pattern that looks for /^\s+.*($search).*\s+$/ using the /si at the end for any case and including line returns, but it never matches anything up. What is the secret with the /s and multiple input lines? Thanks!