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The \s can eat newlines, so the .* gets stuff from the next line. Try \h (horizontal space) instead.
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Re^3: Extracting sometimes null string from text variable
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 17, 2017 at 19:07 UTC
    > Try \h (horizontal space) instead.

    Indeed a solution with \h is much easier! 

    use strict;
use warnings;

my $case1 =
"Club:     Some Club   

Comments:
";

my $case2 = 
"Club:

Comments:
";

for ($case1,$case2){
   /(Club:)\h*(.*?)\h*\n/;

   print "<$2>\n";
}

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    <Some Club>
<>

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    Cheers Rolf
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