Hello Monks,

I have a text file of the following format. I modified the contents of the file.

cat temp

This is little Monk and he is a sharp kid
He is on a mountain!

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In the above text there are two separate lines and they are separated by a new line. I am trying to match for e.g. kid <followed by a newline> He

To accomplish this I am using the following regular expression, I am using a single line modifier when used perl should match any character for a dot(.) including new line. I am trying to capture the match to a special variable $&. My $& should print "kid<newline>He". So what am I missing here ?

perl -ne 'use v5.10; say $& if (/kid.He/s);' temp
<No output>

perl -ne 'use v5.10; say $& if (/kid/s);' temp
kid

perl -ne 'use v5.10; say $& if (/He/s);' temp
He

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Appreciate all the monks for looking at this.

In reply to dot(.) metacharacter in single line modifier mode by raghuprasad241

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