Monks,

I am a bit confused with multi line matching, how can I get the value of property name "Text" to match since it spans across multiple lines?

Thanks! 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

   while(<DATA>) {
      if (/<cdset id/.../<\/cdset/) {
         if ($_ =~ /<property name="(.*)"\s+value="(.*)"\/\>/ms) {

            print "$1 -> $2\n";  

         } elsif ($_ =~ m/<property name="(.+)"\s+value=""\/\>/) {

            # if no value
            print "$1 -> \"\"\n";   
         }   
      }   
   }


__DATA__
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<set name="01" id="test" catId="81679" >
   <cdsets>
      <cdset id="cdset" name="CD Compilation">
         <property name="Own"        value=""/>
         <property name="Type"        value="Record"/>
         <property name="Text"        value="Sample text

more sample text
more more same text]."/>
         <property name="Unique"         value="yes"/>
      </cdset>
   </cdsets>
</set>

Output:

Own -> 
Type -> Record
Unique -> yes

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