Did you undefine the input record separator i.e. "undef $/;". If this is not the case you would be trying to match a multiline regex (i,e, your example chunk has 7 lines), but only reading the file line by line. So obviously the match would fail as you are comparing a single line with a pattern that expects more than one line.

Naturally in that case you have to use //s. Also the while loop has to change so that it loops as long as you find something with the regex, the file itself is read only once

In reply to Re: Specific Regex with Multilines (/s and /m): Why Doesn't This Work? by jethro
in thread Specific Regex with Multilines (/s and /m): Why Doesn't This Work? by elvenwonder

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