UPDATE - sorry tstock, i see what happened - i forgot to add the ^ to my example above ... most sorry :O

Try it out: ;) 

use strict;
 
my $arc = 'ARCSERVE.NLM';
my $slurped = do {local $/; <DATA>};

#my ($temp) = $slurped =~ /^($arc.*)\n\n/sm;
my ($temp) = $slurped =~ /($arc.*?\n)\n\n/s;

print $temp;
 
__DATA__
not this one
or this one
asdffARCSERVE.NLM
or even this one
----------------
ARCSERVE.NLM
sign here and here
and here and here

and here


----------------
but not here
blah blah blah
blah blah blah

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I'm sticking to my answer (well, if i had COPIED IT CORRECTLY!!! bad jeffa!) , remember that the 's' modifier allows . to match that newline. Your suggestion would be pretty much the same (and i will admit possibly a bit safer) except you NEED 'm' and ^ in case ARCSERVE.NLM appears in the middle or end of a line.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) 3Re: Searching for variable then blank lines by jeffa
in thread Searching for variable then blank lines by rscott212

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