Re: use regular expressions across multiple lines from a very large input file

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Did you try reading in paragraph mode ($/ = "")? That should work provided that you don't have very long paragraphs and that your search phrase can't be split through paragraphs.

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Re^2: use regular expressions across multiple lines from a very large input file by rizzy (Sexton) on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:03 UTC
I initially thought paragraphs might be the way to go, but these things are all formatted differently and some include html.	[reply]

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