Hello Monks!

I'm an Perl initiate, and script I'm trying to write is far above what I've read and searched all over the place, hence the registration and question.

I would like to write a script that goes through all the folders of my C project and catches all calls to a C function: printf and assign every single catch to an array as a single element. And all that above is pretty easy, I did something like this (files array is filled with File::Find::Rule):

foreach my $file (@files) {
    open my $fh, '<', $file or warn "Coudn't open $file \n";

    while (<$fh>) {
        if (/(printf.*\;)/sm) {
            my $buffer = $1;
            push @printfs, $buffer;
        }
    }
    close $fh;
}

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Above catches only one line printfs. Problem is, the printf calls sometimes span through multiple lines (from 2 up to 5), and that makes it hard to catch for me.

I've already tried things like last if (m/\;$/), yet I failed horribly. Can you help me with that?

In reply to Catching multiple lines and assigning them as a single array element by kort

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