For me it is absolutely enough to know that, say, file XXX is a perl source file with a probability of 80%. ... I tried file and ohlohcount utilities as well, but its assumptions is VERY inaccurate.

How inaccurate is file exactly? What test cases did it have trouble with? I would have thought that if you don't need accuracy, something like checking the first couple of lines against a regex that looks for the shebang line and/or some use statements might be enough for ~80%, but I think you'll need to be more specific in your question for more specific answers. Only perl can parse Perl; I think solutions like PPI will likely be slower. You could try PPR:

use PPR;
my $perl_code = <<'END';
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
print "Hello, World!\n";
END
if ( $perl_code =~ m{ \A (?&PerlDocument) \Z $PPR::GRAMMAR }x )
     { print "It looks like it could parse as Perl\n" }
else { print "It doesn't look like Perl\n" }

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In reply to Re: Fastest way to minimally check that file contains perl code? by haukex
in thread Fastest way to minimally check that file contains perl code? by DRVTiny

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