regex matching multiple line text

budik_je_vypnuty has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear holy monks, I have a *.h file with C function declarations like this:

const char
main
(
int foo,
char abc)
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I tried to match all of them with this regex:

@all_functions = ( $hole_h_file =~ m/^ *[\w ]+\s*\*?\s*[\w]+\s*\(?[\w 
+\*;,.]+\s*\)/mg );
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But that doesnt seems to work :/ How to improve my regex?

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Re: regex matching multiple line text (C::Scan) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 06, 2013 at 16:29 UTC
C::Scan	[reply]
Re: regex matching multiple line text by tmharish (Friar) on Mar 06, 2013 at 16:55 UTC
Use the `/s` modifier to match across lines	[reply] [d/l]