Greetings, Monks.

I'm working on editing some documents (web pages), where I need to replace a block context, with a larger one. I've experimented, but can't yet get it quite right. For example, I am attempting to match the following: 

</div>
</body>

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for some reason (my lack of experience with Perl RE) this doesn't work 
\<\/div\>\n\<\/body\>

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I can match </div> or </body>. But not both. Sorry for the bother. I'm so good with sed I feel I should be closer with Perl, than I am. But still haven't quite got the hang of it. :/

Thank you for your time, and consideration.

--Chris

UPDATE -- now with my broken example 
Yes. What say about me, is true.

In reply to Perl RE; how to capture, and replace based on a block? by taint

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