Dear Monks,
I am new to Perl.
I having a File that some code and C structures defined.
I am trying to read the structure and get it's element values.
I wrote a regular expression, but it would not work across a line.
This is a brief overview of what I did. 
$Fil = "test.txt" 

open Fil or die "cannot open file"

while(<Fil>)
{
       if($_=~m/name_of_the_struct/ .. $_=~m/};/)
      {
              if($_=~m/[ ]*{[ -,"\nA-Za-z0-9]*}/
             {
                      do_some_oper;
              }
       }
}


Example struct


struct name_of_the_struct[]= {
{ 1, "abc", 234 , <new line>
       567,90 },
{2,"asd",333,455,677}
};

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I tried even stripping new lines just before checking for
the pattern, It does not work. Can anyone help
me with this. thanks in advance.

In reply to Regex does not work across new line character by srivats

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