Do you want each sentence in a separate capture? Then the following would work:
my $test = do {local $/; <DATA>}; if ($test =~ m{((?:deferred|unrealized).*?\.)\s*(.*?\.)\s*(.*?\.)}s) { print "print '$1', '$2', '$3'"; } __DATA__ foo bar. baz biz. deferred gross profit is blah blah blah. more blah. and yet more blah. But not this blah.
Or if you don't care about them being separate, you could use the following
if ($test =~ m{(?=deferred|unrealized)((?:.*?\.){3})}s) {

In reply to Re: Quick Regex quesiton by wind
in thread Quick Regex quesiton by eversuhoshin

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