Hi All,

Could you please help with the following issue:

While searching for multiple patterns on the same string, search continues from previous successful match point in the string. Is this expected ? How to make each pattern search start from beginning of the string each time.

Thanks a lot!!

  open (MYFILE, "< $dir_dump$file") || die "Could not read dump file\n
+";
  while (<MYFILE>){
  $dumpbuf .= $_;     
  }
  $dumpbuf =~ s/\s//gs;
  die "Not a valid file, Check output!" if $dumpbuf !~ m/\d/gs; #match
+ one
  die "File contains only zeros, Check output!" if $dumpbuf !~ m/[1-9]
+/sg; #match two

  while ($dumpbuf =~ m/(\w)/gs)
  {
    print "==$1\n"; # prints characters after initial two matches
  }

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