regexp matching across newlines

[David Newman]

Consider a file containing this pattern:

p1
p2

I can match for p1 and p2 like this:

$/ = '';

while(<MYFILE>) {
        if (m/(p1)*.(p2)/ms) {
                print "match! I found $1 and $2\n.";
        }
}

However, the match fails if I change the pattern to:

p1


p2

What I would like to do is match (p1)any arbitrary amount of junk, including
0 or more newlines(p2)

How do I do that?

Thanks!

David Newman



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