If you have the module that Zaxo mentioned, try using it; if not, try installing it; if that fails, try again.

But if you really have a problem with the module, and you think your task shouldn't be that much work (or you don't have time), you could consider the following approach:

Assuming the huge schema file is written in a consistent manner (suggested by your examples), there are bound to be semicolons at the end of every statement, and end-of-statement is bound to be the only place where semicolon is followed by newline, so use the "input record separator" variable in perl to read a whole statement at a time: 

{
  $/ = ";\n";
  while (<SCHEMA>) { 
    # everything up to/including the next ";\n" has been read into $_
    s/\s+/ /g;   # normalize all white space to " "
    if ( /create table (\S+)/ ) {  # table definition statement
        my $tablename = $1;
        ...
    }
    ...
  }
}

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