Ok, here's my stab at it with some trial and error but without any research:

My first reaction was "why use the anchors?" as you're specifying the text on both sides of the newline, so the anchors are redundant: if ($string =~ /foo\nbar/m) seems to work fine.

As to why the anchors don't work, and apart from them being interpreted as parts of variables (no $bar in your first example) I think it is because you are not allowing for the actual newline character. The anchors are not characters, just locations.

Now for a question of my own: Why does if ($string =~ /foo.bar/m) or similar not work?

(BTW, I'm planning to re-do my living room with the colour selection that results from this thread, so select carefully please!)

Update: Thanks nysus, I'm glad I said I hadn't done any research as that's practically the first line in the quick reference section on regex (blush). You can tell I never need to match a newline!

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

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