Jose Malacara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone explain to me how to do multiline matching? I am
> trying to extract three consecutive lines from a datafile
> containing multiple records like this:
Check out
perldoc perlre
What you should do is look at the 'm' (multiple line) option.
HTH
JW
> Name: Bob
> City: Austin
> State: Texas
> Address: 123 Whatever
> Age: 46
>
> Name: Jose
> City: Denver
> State: Colorado
> Address: 118 Mystreet
> Age: 28
>
>
>
> This is what I have so far, but it doesn't seem to work:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> open FILE, "<file1" or die "Can't open file!\n";
> while (<FILE>){
> if ( /^Name: (.*)\nCity: (.*)\nState: (.*)/) {
> print "Match found!\n"; # ideally, I want to print the the
> lines found
> }
> }
> close FILE;
>
> But for some reason, it doesn't seem to like the (\n)'s in the
> regex. Any help would be appreciated!
>
> This is what I would like to return:
>
> Name: Bob
> City: Austin
> State: Texas
>
> Name: Jose
> City: Denver
> State: Colorado
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jose
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