Hi Monks,

I must be missing something obvious here. I want to grab the text between the strings <blockquote> and </blockquote> so I tried this ... 

$ cat test.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $data;
while(<DATA>) {
    $data .= $_;
}
my $stuff = "uninit";

if ( $data =~ /<blockquote>(.*)<\/blockquote>/m ) {
    $stuff = $1;    
}

print "$stuff\n";

__DATA__
</p>
<blockquote>This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations
+ of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
</blockquote>
<!-- if div.cd-cover --><div class="cd-cover">

</div><!-- end if -->

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The output is simply ... 
uninit

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... I was hoping for ... 
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in 
+Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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... what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks!

In reply to Isn't /m for multiline regex? by Anonymous Monk

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