many thanks~~ it's quite clear in the perldoc and the problem is solved. :)
2006/8/7, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Guo Remy wrote:
> hi all,
Hello,
> i'm now trying to match a number of lines in a txt file...for example,
my
> txt file is:
>
> abc
> xyz
> fred
> wilma
> barney
> anything
>
> and my code is:
>
> while (<>) {
> if (/(fred\nwilma\n\barney)/) {
> print "$1\n";
> }
> }
>
> but actually it returns nothing...i guess "while (<>)" reads the file
line
> by line, so it can not match several lines at a time...right?
>
> so how can i match multiple lines in a file?
> thanks in advance~~ :)
perldoc -q "matching over more than one line"
John
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