Hello again monks. Now that I have the right log file to code against, I have come across another issue. I have a log formatted like this: 
<13>Nov 15 21:26:00 OamCOMM[365626]:
TIMESTAMP=Thu Nov 15 21:26:00 2018

MSGCLS=OAMOPE
Title=OAM Create OPERATION
Severity=Inform
message={username:xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
 causeDISTINGUISH_NAME=label=x,label=x,;label=x,label=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
+label=x,label=xxxx
USER_LABEL=
******************* parameters after change =*******************
label=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
label=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
label=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
label=sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
label=xxxxxxxxxxxx
******************* xxxxxxxxxxxx =*******************
label=x
}
Message Id=xxxxxxxx

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For troubleshooting purposes I extracted one "chunk" of the log and put it into a text file t.txt. I then crafted t.pl to see if I could get the coding to work without impacting my larger script. Basically, I need to capture everything between "message=" and "Message Id" for this log entry. I am thinking in an array for processing after extraction. I have literally tried 40 different ideas, either my own or found on internet search, and nothing works. Here's my t.pl code I'm trying to make work: 
#!/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $mlsf = "t.txt";
my @res;

open IN, "<", $mlsf or die "IN: $!\n";

while (my $mls = <IN>) {
        @res = $mls =~ m/^.*message=(.*?)Message Id.*$/gs;
}

print Dumper (\@res);

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When I execute this script, I get: 
$VAR1 = [];

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Anyone have any ideas?

In reply to Multiple Line Regex Not Working by ImJustAFriend

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