Question

I have text like this:

00:00 stuff
00:01 more stuff
multi line
  and going
00:02 still 
    have

So, I don’t have a block end, just a new block start.

I want to recursively get all blocks:

1 = 00:00 stuff
2 = 00:01 more stuff
multi line
  and going

etc

The bellow code only gives me this:

$VAR1 = '00:00';
$VAR2 = '';
$VAR3 = '00:01';
$VAR4 = '';
$VAR5 = '00:02';
$VAR6 = '';

What am I doing wrong?

my $text = '00:00 stuff
00:01 more stuff
multi line
 and going
00:02 still 
have
    ';
my @array = $text =~ m/^([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2})(.*?)/gms;
print Dumper(@array);

Answer 1

This should do the trick. Beginning of next \d\d:\d\d is treated as block end.

use strict;

my $Str = '00:00 stuff
00:01 more stuff
multi line
  and going
00:02 still 
    have
00:03 still 
    have' ;

my @Blocks = ($Str =~ m#(\d\d:\d\d.+?(?:(?=\d\d:\d\d)|$))#gs);

print join "--\n", @Blocks;