Hello everyone, Could anyone help me in matching a pattern in perl. Below is my current regex.

 s/((\n)([^0-9])+(-)*(Aa-Zz)*)|((\n)(\d{3})(-)*(Aa-Zz)*)/$2$3/g

we have a file where we have multiple newline characters in final field. We need to replace the newline characters with space. My current regex is deleting the first digit of the number and also replacing the hyphen.

Edit 1: My data looks like something below.

Current data: 
99~Arun~Kumar~Mobilenum:
1234-567 , from Earth
Human
98~Mahesh~Babu~Mobilenum:
5678-901 , from Earth
Human

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In the above data the delimiter is '~' and we have 4 fields. The last field is a clob in database and I would need to remove the newlines(\n) in the 4th field. Hope you got my issue.


Desired output:

99~Arun~Kumar~Mobilenum: 1234-567 , from Earth Human
98~Mahesh~Babu~Mobilenum: 5678-901 , from Earth Human

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In reply to perl regex to match newline followed by number and text by arunkumarzz

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