Hello monks,

I have been trying to match the pattern below, but have been greatly unsuccessful. There are 5 lines in the Output

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dannyd@cli>

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This is the code I have been trying, 
#!/usr/bin/perl

open (FH, "test.txt");
while (<FH>)
{
    print "Match!!\n" if ($_ =~ /^-+\nBG/ms);
}
close (FH);

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I am able to match any one of the lines, but when I try to match the next one using the same regular expression, It fails, please help me figure out why this is happening

And any good material to read on multi line matching would also be highly appreciated

In reply to The simplest perl Multi Line matching. by dannyd

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