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in thread Matching string, then getting next line

Actually you'd better remove only the ending "CR" characters, not spaces : 
while (<MYFILE>) {
   s/\r\n$/\n/g;
   ...
}

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This simply replace "<CR><LF>" (DOS end of lines) with "<LF>" (Unix end of line)

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Re^6: Matching string, then getting next line
by minixman (Beadle) on Mar 08, 2006 at 14:03 UTC
    Maybe a better option would be to try and split out everything between the message dump: and message dump: Is there a way to say something like 
    if($_ =~ /Message Dump:(.*) Message Dump:/)

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    And then the whole string would be in something like $1
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      You can try to change the line separator $/ to "Message Dump:", then each line would end with "Message Dump:". However the conversion from DOS to Unix line ends is more standard and reusable...
      my @messages;
my $inmessage = 0; # 0 false, 1 true

while ( <FILE> ) {
   s/\r\n$/\n/ ;

   if ( $inmessage) {
      push $_, @messages;
   }

   if ( m/Message Dump:.*/ ) {
      # we set $inmessage to 1 if 0, or 0 if 1
      $inmessage = abs( $inmessage -1 ) ;
}

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[d/l]
        Not sure this is going to work, as it will never find the message i am looking for, should i not be using something like the (.*) so store the contents between Message Dump: and Message Dump:
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