Re: multi-line regular expression help

I copied and pasted your regex as well as your string and it worked with no problem:

$string = "03/27 MON 07:59A [ 11:59A 12:44P] (b12:45P
b01:15P) 04:30P 8:00 0:00 0:00";
print "$&\n" if $string =~ /^\s*\d\d\/\d\d\s+[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]\s+.*\d\:\d\d\s+\d\:\d\d\s*$/ms;

It definitely succeeded in the match and printed it fine. .* will match newlines as long as you
have /s.

Maybe if you post your code we can find the problem.

---Tome

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:46:43 GMT, Cesar Baquerizo <ces@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I am having a problem trying to match both of the following strings:

03/23 THU 07:09A (b12:00P b12:30P) 04:30P 8:00 0:00 0:00

as well as (embedded newline):

03/27 MON 07:59A [ 11:59A 12:44P] (b12:45P
b01:15P) 04:30P 8:00 0:00 0:00

The first string always matches, but the second never matches. I've
tried different incarnations of the following regex with no success:

(/^\s*\d\d\/\d\d\s+[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]\s+.*\d\:\d\d\s+\d\:\d\d\s*$/ms)
^^

I was hoping that the above part (.*) would match a newline or anything
else in this case and return it in $&.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
.

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