Never heard of OptiPerl.

If you read your code in line by line, which is the normal way in perl, the special variable $_ matches the current line automatically, so you don't need a regex to match it.

Or, I guess,

^.*$

will also match an entire line if you have to use a regex. Or

blah.*$

will match everything from the first blah out to the end of the line.

Or maybe you could rephrase the question if that isn't quite what you wanted. 

use warnings;
use strict;
while (<DATA>) {
  print '$_: ' . "$_";
  /^.*$/;
  print '/^.*$/: ' . "$&\n"; # print the match
  /blah.*$/;
  print '/blah.*$/: ' . "$&\n";
  print "\n";
}

#outputs: 
#$_: blah
#/^.*$/: blah
#/blah.*$/: blah
#
#$_: foo blah
#/^.*$/: foo blah
#/blah.*$/: blah
#
#$_: foo bar blah blah blah
#/^.*$/: foo bar blah blah blah
#/blah.*$/: blah blah blah
#
#$_: 
#/^.*$/: 
#/blah.*$/: 


__DATA__
blah
foo blah
foo bar blah blah blah

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In reply to Re: OptiPerls Pattern Replace (Regexpses for one Line) by tphyahoo
in thread OptiPerls Pattern Replace (Regexpses for one Line) by Ben Win Lue

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