Try something more like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

#use LWP::Simple;
#my $content = get("http://www.url.com/scripttemplate.shtml");

my $breakline = "<!-- SCRIPT TEMPLATE BREAKS HERE -->";

my $content = "This is the first part\n" . $breakline . "This is the l
+ast part\n";

$content =~ m|(.*)$breakline(.*)|s;

print "First Var contains:  $1";
print "Second Var contains: $2";

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This produces

First Var contains:  This is the first part
Second Var contains: This is the last part

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You don't need the while loop, since you're not checking line by line. You want to search the entire string in one pass. That's what the /s modifier is doing in the regex...it's ignoring the line endings.

HTH,

Larry

UPDATE: ysth's explanation is much better than the one I provided here. Not only that, it's correct, too. :) The /s modifier is not ignoring the newlines. It's allowing the . to match newline characters as well. My haste caused me to misrepresent what was actually happening. :)

In reply to Re: Simple regex by larryp
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