Hello. I'm using a script that auto fills a html form and parses through the result looking for a match. If all is good I should get the following response: 
...
        <tr>
         <td class="order2" width="266"><p>Transaction Number:</p>
      </td>
         <td class="order3" width="324">V64F66697601</td>
      </tr>
...

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What I need is to find the Transaction # and grab it to save to the record. What I have been trying (well, the latest version anyway) is: 
...
my $order_reg = "<p>Transaction Number:<\/p>\n.*<\/td>\n.*<td .*>(.*)<
+\/td>";

if ($request->content =~ /$order_reg/s) {
  print "\nmatched $1\n";
}

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What happens is that it comes back as matching but it doesn't grab $1, its just blank. It looks like the first ".*" matches everything to the end of the html response. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how the regex should be set up?

D

In reply to Multiple line regex match by dogen

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