On Jul 22, David Newman said:
>$/ = '';
Set $/ to undef instead.
>while(<MYFILE>) {
> if (m/(p1)*.(p2)/ms) {
> print "match! I found $1 and $2\n.";
> }
>}
When $/ is "", it's like the regex /\n{2,}/. If it's undef, then <FILE>
slurps the entire file at once.
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