#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.032001; use warnings; use PPR::X; my $code=<<'_code_'; package Fee; sub one { say __PACKAGE__.q{::one}; }; package Fi; sub two { say __PACKAGE__.q{::two}; }; { package Foo; sub three { say __PACKAGE__.q{::three}; }; }; # End of package Foo! sub four { say __PACKAGE__.q{:four}; }; _code_ my $re = qr{ # What to match... (?: (? (?&PerlBlock) ) | (? (?&PerlPackageDeclaration) ) | (? (?&PerlSubroutineDeclaration) ) ) $PPR::X::GRAMMAR }x; use Data::Dumper; while ($code =~ m{$re}gx) { warn Data::Dumper->new([\%+],[qw(*+)])->Deepcopy(1)->Indent(1)->Maxdepth(3)->Sortkeys(1)->Dump(),q{ }; }; __DATA__ #### %+ = ( 'package' => 'package Fee;' ); at Fi_01.t line 44. %+ = ( 'subroutine' => 'sub one { say __PACKAGE__.q{::one}; }' ); at Fi_01.t line 44. %+ = ( 'package' => 'package Fi;' ); at Fi_01.t line 44. %+ = ( 'subroutine' => 'sub two { say __PACKAGE__.q{::two}; }' ); at Fi_01.t line 44. %+ = ( # A BLOCK complete with its package/subroutine declarations 'block' => '{ package Foo; sub three { say __PACKAGE__.q{::three}; }; }' ); at Fi_01.t line 44. %+ = ( 'subroutine' => 'sub four { say __PACKAGE__.q{:four}; }' ); at Fi_01.t line 44.