Thanks jmacnamara, that was very useful.

The Wiki people, as I found out here start with the text as one long string.

We have the text of a page in one big string which we split into lines to be processed individually. This colors our TextFormattingRules, especially those dealing with bullet lists. Since we've now forced authors to be newline conscious, we give them the opportunity to escape newlines with a back-slash (\) which we substitute with a blank. 
  sub PrintBodyText {
    s/\\\n/ /g;
    foreach (split(/\n/, $_)){

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(there follows a long long list of regexes) which is kind of an interesting answer to my question, "should I work on an array or a block of text?", which I hadn't considered. It's kind of a "both".


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