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Yes - that has done it - thanks!

Can I ask you eactly what it is doing though? They key changes seem to be the addition of the /g flag, and the @a= at the start of the regex...

Ben

A definite improvement, in that it returns only one match - however, it starts the match from the start of the log file, so I end up with the first, not the last match...

Theres quite a lot of it... but summarizing:

<timestamp> checkStatus SUCCESS [
many lines of varied text
]

All other lines of the log will not match the above, and will be of the form:
...

Hi,

I have a large, multiline log file.

I have used pcregrep to extract all entries in that log that match a particular pattern - where that pattern spans multiple lines.

However, because...