use PPI; my $ds = PPI::Document->new('sample_config.pl'); for my $sub ( @{ $ds->find('PPI::Statement::Expression') || [] } ) { my $Tokenizer = PPI::Tokenizer->new( \$sub ); while ( my $Token = $Tokenizer->get_token ) { print "Found token '$Token'\n" if ( $Token =~ /\w+/ ); } print "---------------------------------------------\n" }