Enlightened Ones,

I have an http log file which I need to parse and pull certain values out of. I started off a script below to do this but got stuck when I realised that one of the strings I need to test for spans 2 lines. The string I'm trying to find here is "Content Compression to Date". Here's the relevant extract: 

 <tr>
            <td height="16" width="180" class="jnpsInput" nowrap><stro
+ng>Content
              Compression to Date</strong></td>
            <td height="16" width="19" class="jnpsInput" nowrap><stron
+g>=</strong></td>

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This is my script: 

while(<>){

        if(/Content-Length:\s*(\d*)/){
                $contentlength=$1;
                print "\nContent-Length: $contentlength" if $DEBUG;
        }

        next if $contentlength < 15000;

        if(/Expires:\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*(\S*)/){
                $expires=$1;
                print "\nExpires: $expires" if $DEBUG;
        }

        if(/**** ???? ******/){
                print "\nContent Compression to Date found\n" if $DEBU
+G;
        }
}

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Does anyone know what regex I need to find this?

Thanks for any help.

js1.

In reply to multiple line regex by js1

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