diotalevi has a recursive maximal match regex. I will "steal" that to provided a regex solution :-)
use strict; use warnings; my $re = qr/ \{ # Opening bracket ((?: # Capture the contents [^}{]+ | (??{$re}) # Or recurse )+) # and allow repeats internally \} # Closing bracket /x; my $str = do { local $/; <DATA> }; while ($str =~ /sub\s+(.*?)\s*?$re/gsi) { print "Subroutine [$1]\n", "=================\n", "{$2}\n\n"; } __DATA__ sub max { my ($a, $b) = @_; return $a > $b ? $a : $b; } sub min { my ($a, $b) = @_; return $a < $b ? $a : $b; }

And the output -
Subroutine [max] ================= { my ($a, $b) = @_; return $a > $b ? $a : $b; } Subroutine [min] ================= { my ($a, $b) = @_; return $a < $b ? $a : $b; }


In reply to Re: Profiling Code (Subroutine Documenting.) by Roger
in thread Profiling Code (Subroutine Documenting.) by Anonymous Monk

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