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Regex matching EOL character within a string

I'm trying to find LF characters that appear between double quotes. The text file I'm searching has field-value pairs in this format

    msgid "text 1"
    msgstr "text 2"

I'm trying to find if LF characters appear within text 1 or text 2 strings. I have tried "[^"\r\n]*\n[^"\r\n]*" but it just picks up " msgstr "

Solution

  • This regex : 

    if ($subject =~ m/"([^"\r\n]*?[\r\n]+[^"\r\n]*?)"\s*$/m) {
    $result = $1;
}

    When applied to these strings : 

    msgid "text 1 " 
msgstr "text 2"
msgstr "something with new 
line"

    Will produce this output : 

    something with new 
line