Using regexes for such a job might be asking too much from regexes. I think you should probably think of a parser. You could write a minimal parser yourself (probably using regexes among other things, but the driving idea should be to parse the input, i.e. separate the tokens and and analyze them one by one) or use an existing parsing module and just write the grammar and the code to call and use it.

As an example, you could use Damian Conway's Parse-RecDescent module: http://search.cpan.org/~jtbraun/Parse-RecDescent-1.967009/lib/Parse/RecDescent.pm. There may be some more lightweight packages, but I do not know them.

In reply to Re: Multiline string and one line comments by Laurent_R
in thread Multiline string and one line comments by AskandLearn

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