Regular Expression Matching New Line

[p1no]

I'm trying to add copyright information to the top of XML files. However, it needs to go after the prologue:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
..>

My problem is that some XML Documents have the ..> tag spread out over many lines and I need to add the copyright information after the whole tag. With the following regular expression, it only matches the first line of the ..> tag. Any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

if($XML)
{[INDENT] $holdTerminator = $/;
   undef $/; 
   $buf = <DAT> or die "Can't read into variable";
   $/ = $holdTerminator;
   if($buf =~ m/(<\?xml version="\d\.\d".*\?>[.\s\n]*(<!DOCTYPE.*>?)?)/i)
     {[/INDENT][INDENT]	[INDENT]print "XML $1";
	$version=$1;
	$buf =~ s/<\?xml version="\d\.\d".*\?>[.\s\n]*(<!DOCTYPE.*>?)?/$version \n\n $start_comment $copyright $end_comment/i;
	seek(DAT, 0, 0);
	print DAT $buf;[/INDENT][/INDENT][INDENT]}[/INDENT]}

[Comatose]

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/perlre.html is a great site to learn about regex's.... look up the "multi-line" regular expression test with the match operator. You'll be amazed at the power and versatility of it.

[p1no]

Thanks for the reply. I had tried adding /m to the end of the substitution, but that didn't work. Then it matches the <?XML...> tag, but not the ..>. It inserts the copyright info inbetween the <?XML...> and ..> tags, like it didn't recognize the ..> tag. I also tried adding /s to the end, and that matched the entire document, which really screwed things up. The beginning of the XML file I'm testing looks like this...

[HTML] [/HTML]

but there are a few other files that have many lines of ..>.