Hi,
Sorry if I am asking a dumb question....I am new to Perl. I have a file containing the following:

HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
...
...
HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2")
   GENERATED_BY("dumpTc")
)
...
...
HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2.1")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
...
...
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I want to capture any part of the text that has the following exact sequence of lines- anywhere it occurs in the ascii file I have:

HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
[download]

Or

HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2.1")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
[download]

and print it to stdout. For this, if I use perl's range operator, everything works fine.
But if I use something as :

...
if(/^HEADER(.*?)GENRE_BY(.*)/) {
  print;
}
...
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I am not able to get the RE to match:

<code>
HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
[download]

Or

HEADER(
   LIBDAT("GTASK")
   VENDOR("DeltaQ")
   Environment("zeronom")
   TASK_VERSION("5.2")
   GENRE_BY("dumpTc")
)
[download]

Can you please point out my mistake?
Christina J.

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