in reply to Re: Matching Across Lines
in thread Matching Across Lines

matija and duff
Many thanks for your replies. I got it working using duff's
solution. The local *FH stuff I think I picked out from Programming
Perl or some where on the net. Not sure.

Anyway, I changed it as described in the solution.

One thing I'm still confused about are the m and s modifiers.

Still don't understand:
/m matches ^$ next to embedded \n
-- not sure what this means

/s . match newline and ignores deprecated $*
-- same here, not sure what this means

Anyway, thanks both for replying and getting my script
working!!!

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Re: Re: Re: Matching Across Lines
by mkb125 (Initiate) on Feb 25, 2004 at 19:37 UTC
    OK, ok, ok...I understand now....
    I re-read http://www.infocopter.com/perl_corner/perlre.htm
    and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003Jul/0091.html

    I also got both solutions working. Here is majita's
    solution which I just figured out:

    if ($text =~ /^Total Datafile Size MB(-+)\s+(\d.+)/s) {
    print $2;
    }

    Again, thanks both for helping me out.

    mohammed
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