in reply to Regular Expression tricky newline problem

Use '?' to get a nongreedy match up to the first newline:

$data =~ m/Line3 : (.*?)\n/s;

You can also use a greedy match with a negated character class:

$data =~ m/Line3 : ([^\n]*)/s;

My test code follows:

use warnings; use strict; my $data = join( '', <DATA> ); print "[$data]\n\n"; $data =~ m/Line3 : (.*?)\n/s or die; print "match: [$1]\n"; $data =~ m/Line3 : ([^\n]*)/s or die; print "match: [$1]\n"; __DATA__ Line1 : Dit is de eerste regel Line2 : Dit is de tweede regel Line3 : Dit is de derde regel Line4 : Dit is de vierde regel