I'm not sure why you are approaching the problem this way. Am I missing something, or can't you just grab the error code from the error string, then do a lookup in your hash? For example:

$error = "00000056: AtrErr: DSID-03190F80, #1:
    0: 00000056: DSID-03190F80, problem 1005 (CONSTRAINT_ATT_TYPE), da
+ta 0, Att 9005a (unicodePwd)
";

my %pwd_reset_errors = (
    '0000052D' => "new password does not meet complexity requirements"
+,
    '00000056' => "wrong old password",
);

my($error_code) = ($error =~ m/(\d+):/);

print $pwd_reset_errors{$error_code}, "\n";

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This prints

wrong old password

In reply to Re: regex match multiple line (updated question) by wazat
in thread regex match multiple line (updated question) by natxo

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