Our named.conf is well over 20 meg, so parsing this is quite fun. Can anyone suggest a better method than the one below, which seems to take forever to match towards the end of the file. The only prerequisites are it has to be bulletproof as named.conf prefers to be error-free (!)
Dev code folows: 
local $/=undef;
open(F, "named.conf") || die $!;
my $zonedata=<F>;
close F;
if ($zonedata=~/(zone\s+"$domain"\s+\{\r?\n(.*?)\r?\n(.*?)\r?\n(\s+)?\
+};(\r?\n)+)/) {
   print "Got a match on $1\n";
   $zonedata=~s/$1//;
   #write out..
   }

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My sole reason for loading into scalar is for simplicity, although I think this is where the problem may be. I avoided while <> to avoid keeping the file open for longer than was necessary.
FYI a typical entry in named.conf would be:

zone "foobar.com" {
   type master;
   file "named.foobar.com";
};

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Thanks-in-advance Monks

In reply to regex large named.conf parsing by Anonymous Monk

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