I have working regex's which substitute errant fonts in Framemaker .mif files to something more agreeable to our tech writers. ie. 
my $pattern = qr{<PgfTag `Normal \(T\)'>\s*\n\s*<ParaLine\s*\n\s*<Stri
+ng `$oldLabel'>\s*\n};
my $replacement = "<PgfTag `Block Label \(T\)'>\n<ParaLine\n<String `$
+newLabel'>\n";
my $k = 0;
$$contents =~ s/$pattern/++$k && $replacement/ge;

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What I would like to do is reformat & comment these regex's more in the style discussed in perlfaq6. Yet when I break the qr// statement up into multiple lines, I no longer match correctly. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any insight you can pass along!

j

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