package Lame; use 5.010; use warnings; use strict; my $rx_Z = qr{ (? sub { my ($n) = @_; return $n * 5; }, 'XP' => sub { ++$n_XP; return qq{ ($n_XP)}; }, ); sub parse { my ($sr_s) = @_; $$sr_s =~ s{ (?| $rx_Z \K (\d+) | $rx_XP \K) } { $dispatch{$^R}->($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7) }xmseg; } 1; #### c:\@Work\Perl\monks\Lejocode>perl -wMstrict -le "use Lame; ;; my $s = 'a Z=4 b ZZ=1 c Z = 123Z=99d XP e XXPP f XP gXPh'; print qq{'$s'}; ;; Lame::parse(\$s); print qq{'$s'}; " 'a Z=4 b ZZ=1 c Z = 123Z=99d XP e XXPP f XP gXPh' 'a Z=20 b ZZ=1 c Z = 615Z=495d XP (1) e XXPP f XP (2) gXP (3)h'