Hi, I'm trying to work out why this regex isn't working as I'm expecting. I'm using the /m modifier to make it treat the data as "new lines" per row, but it seems to just keep looping through on the first one: 
my $data = <<_DATA_;
== Example header 1

== a

f

== Header 2 example

==== sub header

a sub sub header :)

== Testing header item with some stuff in

[[fffsdfsdf]]
_DATA_

while ($data =~ /^\=\= (.+?)$/m) {
    print "FOO: $1 \n";
}

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..just keeps printing out:

FOO: Example header 1 (repeatedly, til you kill the script)

Can anyone point me to where I'm going wrong?

TIA!

Andy

In reply to m modifier not doing what I'm expecting? by ultranerds

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