in reply to Re: How can i catch strings matching a regex across multiple lines?
in thread How can i catch strings matching a regex across multiple lines?

you can see that $id gets reinitialized upon each iteration of the loop (with each new line read)
But he is reading records, not lines and therefore it is perfectly OK --even recommended-- to re-initialize $id each time through the loop.

The solution is to add the g modifier to the regex.

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