OK - 3 days exp. with perl here so go easy... ;-)
Let say I have a text file like so:

logging {
category lame-servers { null; };
category cname { null; };
};

zone "." in {
type hint;
file "root.cache";
};

zone "127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type slave;
file "127";
masters { 10.10.1.113; };
};

Returns:

logging { category lame-servers { null; };
category cname { null; };
zone "." in { type hint; file "root.cache";};
zone "127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type slave; file "127"; masters { 10.10.1.113; };

It's splitting when it finds "{}"'s embedded in "{}". Now, I want to break it up into 3 logical "sections". I can get it to split using this regex:

foreach my $lines(@temparray) #where temparray is the above
{
   chomp $lines;
   $string=$string.$lines;
}        
while($string=~/(\w+ )([\w\W\d]+?\};)+?/g)
{
   print "$1$2<br>";
}

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but I can't get it to recognize line returns like this:

while($string=~/(\w+ )([\w\W\d]+?\};\n)+?/gm)

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What gives?

In reply to multiline, global regex by maj12

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