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As for the regex problem itself, now that I see what the data "really" looks like (though it's hard to be sure how many whitespace characters there really are), maybe something like this would work better: 

if ( /\w+.([\d.]+).\s+\w+\s+\w+/ ) {
   print $&, $/;
}

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Or, if you really want to be specific about the characters you want to match: 
if ( /\w+.([\d.]+).\s+CURRENT\s+CHLTYPE/ ) {
   print $&, $/;
}

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I did try those out on your data, and the print-out includes the linefeed where it belongs.

Now, I presume that your real goal is something other than that odd looking output from print, and depending on what your real goal is, maybe a regex isn't your best choice -- e.g. how about using split()?

update: having seen ercparker's reply below, I should point out that I was assuming all along that you already had all three lines of text stored together in $_ -- but if you've actually been reading and matching one line at a time (as most people usually do), then ercparker is right: you can't match across a newline if $_ does not contain anything after the first newline.

In reply to Re^3: newline in unix by graff
in thread newline in unix by Anonymous Monk

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