Re: I am gating MAD!

Probably failing because you're trying to match across multiple lines. Could try to read the file into a single string and have your regex use the m or s modifier.

For example:

open(I,'<','error.log');
undef $/; $_ = <I>;
print "$1\n" if /\s*HELPTEXT\s+(.*)\s*HELP/s;
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Of course, you shouldn't use (.*) in matches but if you're really impatient and the input stays this simple (doesn't report multiple errors), this should work.

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Re^2: I am gating MAD! by someone202 (Initiate) on Mar 02, 2008 at 08:31 UTC
Thx, Forgot about the //s flag... Last thing: why this one doesn't work: `/HELPTEXT\s+"(.+)"\s+/s` [download] Thx.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: I am gating MAD! by ysth (Canon) on Mar 02, 2008 at 09:12 UTC
"doesn't work" here means it gets more than you want, I'm guessing? The .+ is greedy; it matches as much as possible of your string so long as it is followed by " and whitespace. Use .+? to be non-greedy, or use `[^"]+` to match only non-" characters. -- Online Fortune Cookie Search	[reply] [d/l]