If you don't want the whole file to be slurped in at once
you could, since lines of code are seperated by semi-colons in C, just use a semi-colon as an end-of-line indicator: local $/ = ';';.
Updated code that should not match ifs and such:
#!perl -w

use strict;

$/ = ';';

my ($header, $type, $arguments);

for my $data (<DATA>) {
   $data =~
   s/(((?:static\s+)?\w+)\s+(\w+)\s*\(([^)]*)\)\s*\{)/($3 eq 'if' or 
                                                       $3 eq 'do' or 
                                                       $3 eq 'while' o
+r 
                                                       $3 eq 'for') ? 
+$1 :
                                        "\/* Function: $3()\n" .
                                        "      Input:\n" .
                                        do { $header = $1; $type = $2;
                                             $arguments = $4 . ','; ''
+} .
                                        (join "\n",
                                        map { sprintf "        %-8s %8
+s : ", split }
                                        $arguments =~
                                        m|\s*(\w+\**\s+\**\w+)\s*,|g) 
+. "\n\n" .
                                        "      Output:\n" .
                                        (sprintf "        %-8s : \n", 
+$type) .
                                        "\n     Author :\n     Date :\
+n*\/" .
                                        "\n\n$header"/ge;
   print $data;
}

__DATA__
int 
function(int a, char *b) {
 ... 
 return 0;
}

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(only if it is not HW)
Hope this helped (and I hope your question was not HW, but for work, documentation or something similar as I suppose it to be).

In reply to Re: regex 2 match C function by CombatSquirrel
in thread regex 2 match C function by jai

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