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Perlre says
m Treat string as multiple lines. That is, change "^" and "$" from...
s Treat string as single line. That is, change "." to match any...
But without also hinting that $/ needs to be changed, the user will get nowhere.
P.S., please add something like this most basic example:
$ seq 4|perl -pwe 'BEGIN{undef $/}s/2\n3/X/'
1
X
4
to perldoc -q 'matching over more than one line' (perlfaq6.pod), as
for some reason there are no examples with "\n" in the regexp. Or
mention there why not.
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