On Jul 22, David Newman said: >$/ = '';
Set $/ to undef instead. >while(<MYFILE>) { > if (m/(p1)*.(p2)/ms) { > print "match! I found $1 and $2\n."; > } >} When $/ is "", it's like the regex /\n{2,}/. If it's undef, then <FILE> slurps the entire file at once. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]