I am trying to use a single regex to capture 2 unique patterns
from a text file. The patterns are not on the same line of text.

---Example Text File Start---

First line of the file used for filler
#augment:A Something One
Another line of text for filler
#augment:B Something Two
Last line of the file used for filler

---Example Text File End---

I want to capture the text 'Something One'
and 'Something Two', from the file using a single regex

Perl script snippet showing problem

open my $pf, '<', $file or die "ERROR: Cannot open input file: $file $
+!\n";

my $newvar;
#chomp (my @array = (<$pf>));
my @array = (<$pf>);
foreach (@array)
{
    $newvar .= $_;
}

#Attempt to capture just one pattern
$newvar =~ /(?:#augment:A)(.*)(?:\n)/;
say $1;
#this works, printed to standard output is: ' Something One' as I hope
+d for

#Attempt to capture just one pattern
$newvar =~ /(?:#augment:B)(.*)(?:\n)/;
say $1;  
#this works, printed to standard output is: ' Something Two' as I hope
+d for

#Attempt to capture 2 patterns by combining above regex's
$newvar =~ /(?:#augment:A)(.*)(?:\n)(?:#augment:B)(.*)(?:\n)/ ;
say $1;
say $2;
#Does not work - nothing is captured and I get uninitialized value $1 
+and $2 warnings...
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Note: I also tried using a while loop to read the file in
line by line and match each line against the combined regex - but that did
not capture both patterns either.
Is it possible to capture both patterns in a case like this using
a single regex expression in perl?

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