If line oriented, read line by line, if spans multiple lines, slurp, then tokenize, then iterate 
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd /;
open my($DATA), '<', \q{
Name -> Name of the person,Path -> include \\path1\\path2\file.txt
#user: machinename\name
#log forward
#Date setup: 12/01/2010
# can be n number of line
Name -> Name of the person
};
my @tokens;
while(<$DATA>){
    m{^\s*$}mgcsx and do {
        push @tokens, ['BLANK', $_ ];
        next;
    };
    m{^([#].*)}mgcsx and do {
        push @tokens, ['COMMENT', $1 ];
        next;
    };
    m{\QName -> \E([^,]+)}mgcsx and do {
        push @tokens, ['NAME', $1 ];
    };
    m{\QPath -> include \E([^\r\n]+)}mgcsx and do {
        push @tokens, ['PATH_INCLUDE', $1 ];
    };
}
dd(\@tokens);
__END__
[
  ["BLANK", "\n"],
  ["NAME", "Name of the person"],
  ["PATH_INCLUDE", "\\\\path1\\\\path2\\file.txt"],
  ["COMMENT", "#user: machinename\\name\n"],
  ["COMMENT", "#log forward\n"],
  ["COMMENT", "#Date setup: 12/01/2010\n"],
  ["COMMENT", "# can be n number of line\n"],
  ["NAME", "Name of the person\n"],
]

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In reply to Re: Help required in find command. (read parse file tokenize m//gc) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Help required in find command. by maestromani

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