I wasn't able to answer this instantly.

I did find that this helps: 

perl -debug
 DB<1> $string= "...foo\nbar...";
 DB<2> x $string =~ /(foo$bar)/m;
 DB<3> x $string =~ /(foo$^bar)/m;
 DB<4> x $string =~ /( foo$ ^bar )/mx;

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note the added parens.

You may also want to add use strict and turn on warnings (though those don't work very well when using the debugger like above).

You may also be interested in seeing how backslashes change things.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: (Regex Quiz) Multi-line Matching by tye
in thread (Regex Quiz) Multi-line Matching by japhy

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