Hmm. Sounds like he should just slurp his file in paragraph mode, or if he has an array, stringify it and slurp it in paragraph mode.

A one-liner ...

perl -000 -ne 'print if /lazy/' lazy_file
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See Abigail's non-one-liner too.

Update: When I wrote

stringify it and slurp ... in paragraph mode

I was thinking of perl's new open-and-read-from-a-scalar, but it appears that it doesn't recognize reading in paragraph mode. Is there any way to make this work:

# assuming @array already exists for some reason
$str = join "", @array;
open S, "<", \$str or die;
$/ = "";                     # paragraph mode normally
while (<S>) {
   print if /lazy/;
}
close S;
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Or is this a bug? (I'm using perl 5.8.0)