in reply to Regex with Newline

Consider this approach:
use warnings; use strict; my $prev; while(<DATA>) { if (/;/) { chomp; $prev = $_; } else { s/(\d{5})/$1;/; print "$prev; $_"; } } __DATA__ Some Company; Some Street 52 12345 City1 Another Company; Another Street 63 23456 City2 Yet Another Company; New Street 11 34546 City3