I see it as sort of regex puzzle. I can almost complete it in my head with sed. But personal evaluation tells me my Perl RE's fall far short of the mark. I'll have to push it off for a day when my Perl RE's can match my current sed skills. But by then. Who knows? :)

Thanks for taking the time to respond, and thanks for your honesty. :)

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;

Don't use regexp's for the same reason that you shouldn't use them for parsing HTML.

Parse::RecDescent would be a better tool, I think. You might be able to handle the basic syntax that way but what about folks using PDO? It looks superficially like DBI, but... So I doubt you can do that much other than handling very simple cases.

Greetings, einhverfr.

Really good points -- especially where PDO's concerned. I hadn't thought about that. :(
But I'm not totally convinced, where HTML is concerned (yet) :)

Thanks for the response, einhverfr..

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;