Why use negative-width assertions, when you're already using the /m flag? I like this: 

use Data::Dumper;
my $info = do { local $/; <DATA> };

my %lines;
while($info =~ m/(\d+)\: (.+?)$/gm) {
    $lines{$1} = $2;
}
print Dumper (\%lines);

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Of course, this also has an appeal: 

my %lines = $info =~ /(\d+): (.+?)$/gm;

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Passing a reference to Dumper allows Data::Dumper to dump the entire data structure without listifying it first.

Update: I miscopied the test data. Oops. Negative-width assertions are the way to go. :)

In reply to Re: Matching over multiple lines in a scalar by chromatic
in thread Matching over multiple lines in a scalar by Rich36

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