I really like this solution, but could you take the regex as a passed in parameter instead of as __DATA__. I know this will entail a far more complecated procedure to interprete it, but I bet it can be done.

Frankly, this is beyond me right now as I have way too much to do to do this myself, but I would love to see someone make this into a usable generalized module. I could see a real use.

Just my hope that someone else will do the work to save me the time ;)

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