Hmmm, Are you sure? the dot "." matches everything but "\n", so it will not expand through newlines (see perlretut):

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

{
  local $/;
  my @replica = <DATA> =~ /replica\s+"(.+)"/g;
  print Dumper \@replica;
}

__DATA__
2005-04-01     root        replica "ml_v_dialer"
2004-06-22     root        replica "pu_v_dialer"
2006-02-11     ccvob01     replica "rd_v_dialer"
  "v_dialer replica for Redmond"
2003-11-25     root        replica "v_dialer_drcalvin"

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Outputs:

$VAR1 = [
          'ml_v_dialer',
          'pu_v_dialer',
          'rd_v_dialer',
          'v_dialer_drcalvin'
        ];

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And:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @replica;
while (<DATA>){
  next if (! /^\d+/);
  /replica\s+"(.+)"/;
  push @replica,$1;
}
print Dumper \@replica;

__DATA__
2005-04-01     root        replica "ml_v_dialer"
2004-06-22     root        replica "pu_v_dialer"
2006-02-11     ccvob01     replica "rd_v_dialer"
  "v_dialer replica for Redmond"
2003-11-25     root        replica "v_dialer_drcalvin"

[download]

Prints the same:

$VAR1 = [
          'ml_v_dialer',
          'pu_v_dialer',
          'rd_v_dialer',
          'v_dialer_drcalvin'
        ];

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citromatik

In reply to Re^3: how to parse to get only the replica names in an array by citromatik
in thread how to parse to get only the replica names in an array by Anonymous Monk

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