perl regex not matching string with newline character \n

Question

I\'m trying to use perl (v5.14.2) via a bash shell (GNU Bash-4.2) in Kubuntu (GNU/Linux) to search and replace a string that includes a newline character, but I\'m not succe

Answer 1

The problem is that "-p" has already implicitly wrapped this loop around your "-e", and the "<>" is splitting the input into lines, so your regexp never gets a chance to see more than one line.

 LINE:
       while (<>) {
           ...             # your program goes here
       } continue {
           print or die "-p destination: $!\n";
       }

See the perlrun manpage for more information.