Hi stevieb

It's said that every programmer has to invent a template system or a vocabulary trainer.

And it seems every Perl hacker has to try to parse Perl. ;-P

... well ... how can I help you?

Do you want ...

• ... links to other projects trying to do the job with regexes in order to have a look into the code? *
• ... suggestions how to make your regex better maintainable by nesting regexes for different sub-grammars?
• ... a link where Merlyn shows that Perl can't be statically parsed because any imported sub with prototype can change how the parser proceeds?

Just a simple example

• you need to exclude subs inside POD or strings from your listing.
• strings are not easily detected because we have q and qq operators.
• ...

  q!
    sub :attr() {
        print "bla"
     }
  !
  [download]

edit

*) like PPR,

update

From your module

> Files are parsed using PPI, not by inspecting packages or op-trees.

I think it's clearer if you say

> Files are statically parsed using PPI, not by dynamically inspecting packages or coderefs.

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