On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:52:21AM +0100, Louis Pouzin wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a regex I can't figure out. The intent is to catch all text from > a line and its continuation if any (in msg headers). In the case here, it > doesn't work. Anyone could explain ? Thanks.
Your regex uses \s* where it should be using [ \t]. That allows it to incorrectly match the newline immediately after the colon and then match the next line as the content of the header. Try this instead: my $lgl = '[ \t]*((?:.*?)\n(?:[ \t]+.*?\n)*)'; Ronald
