I have a multi-line match regex qr{$regex}ms that I want to fail when my string is non-empty. I have noticed that for the following text value(example) it matches and passes because the 2nd line is empty with just a newline. How can I maintain this multiline match regex format but always fail for any text that is returned even if one line contains no text:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $tests = '% only 1 profile is allowed
';
my $regex = '^$';
if($tests =~ qr{$regex}ms) {
print "$tests\n REGEX MATCHED\n";
} else {
print "$tests\n FAILED!\n";
}
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