Hi Monks, I'm trying to use a regex to see the 2nd line of a text file. The text file looks like this: USB::0x05E6::0x2220::9010183::INSTR USB::0x0699::0x03A4::C032029::INSTR "USB" is the beginning of a line and "INSTR" is the end. There are 2 lines. My regex looks like this: 
if ($line =~ m/USB\d*::0x[0-9a-fA-F::]+0x[0-9a-fA-F]+::[0-9a-fA-F]+INS
+TR\s*(.+?)\s*USB\d*/) 
   {
    print $line;
   }
 }

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From what I gathered from another post this: "s*(.+?)\s*" should get me to the next line because *s in this context is line feed. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong here?

In reply to regex multi-line by Anonymous Monk

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