I am trying to extract a pattern from a file. Actually there are 2 occurances of the pattern in the file, one in line 2-3 and other in line 4. But the program is only reporting the occurance in line 4.

The reason why i am giving (.|\n) coupled 'match_not_dot_newline' with is that i want the regex to be perl compatible.

Why is the program not reporting the first occurance ? Is this a bug ? I am attaching the code and file.

Thanks

Kiran.