Regular expressions (easy money?)

Question

This may be easy money for someone who knows a little bit of Perl...
Here is the code I want to search :
text 1
<!-- comment a test
     Text for comA
     Text2 for ComA Text3 forComA
-->
text 2
<!-- comment b
     Text for comB
Text2 for ComB
-->
text 3
<!-- comment c
     Text for comC
-->
Text 4
I use the demo applet for the ORO project from Apache to test my RegExpr : http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/demo.html
Here is my goal :
=============
Obtain three matches for the following pattern :
<!-- comment a [any combination of words/spaces/linespaces] -->
I am convinced that this is an easy one but I'm a newbie at Perl and RegExpr, so a little help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Vince

Answer 1

Presuming you really do want perl, the following works.
     use strict;
     my $s = join("", <>); # Slurp in entire file
     my $i=0;
     while ($s =~ s/(<!-- comment (a|b|c)[^>]+-->)//)
         my $result = $1;
         $i++;
         print "=====$i\n";
         print "$result\n\n";
     }