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Perl regular expressions

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-05-28

how would I match newlines in perl?

for example I have the following code which will match fine except it
can't contain any newlines:

# This matches the expression: template { (any characters) }
if ($token =~ /template{(.*)}/) {
    print $1."\n";  
}

I want to be able to have newlines in the expression for example it
should match the following expression:

template{ 
    
    <h1>$name</h1><br>
    <h1>$email</h1><br>
    <h1>$date</h1><br>
    <h1>$message</h1><br>

};

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