Hi, 
   I have a bunch of text (multiple paragraphs). I want to find a sentence 
like 'Susan * the water' (No its not a HW problem). Here's what I am 
doing:

#! /usr/bin/perl


use warnings;

$file="temp.txt";
open(fp,$file) or die "Cant open $file :$!\n";


local $/="";
while (<fp>) {
   while( /(susan)(\D+)[the|water]\b/xig )
    {
      print "$1 $2\n"
    }
}

this catches sentences like:

susan swam in the water for long time whereas i wud like
susan swam in the water

What am i doing wrong ?

Mandar


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