Ok, first here's my data;
   record1
    field2 2345
   record2
   record3
    field1 GAGGA
    field2 7848
    field2a 5m
Each field is slightly indented, with a record always beginning at column 4.

What I'm trying to do is break this up into records, so I can process the fields. Here's the basic algorithm I'm playing with: 
 foreach $record ($formatted_data =~ m/(^ {3}\w.*)/mg) {
   &process_record($record);
 }

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Which only returns the first line of a given record, as though my "." wasn't matching \n.

I gave up trying to split the data, because I need that first \w. I also abandoned using [\s\S] instead of "." , since that was too greedy; yet not greedy enough if I subdued it with a "?" thus: m/(^ {3}\w[\s\S]*?)/mg.

There must be a middle ground here somewhere... I can feel I'm close...

In reply to Regex not greedy enough by Boldra

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