Don't try to futz with 
grep (expr), @list;

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or 
grep ((expr), @list);

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or any such... you just confuse the hell out of the parser and out of someone trying to read it. Instead use this syntax for grep: 
grep { block } @list;

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Those are curly braces setting off a block, not parenthesese setting off an expression. So your code would become: 
    grep {
        ( -f "$path/$_" ) and 
        ( $_ =~ m/\.(java|xml|cpp|c|h|inc|pas)$/i ) and
        ( $self->Scan_File( "$path/$_", $out, $target )
    } @files );
    # Also scan any subdirectories.
    grep {
        ( ( -d "$path/$_" ) and 
          ( $_ !~ /^\.+$/ ) and # but avoid . and ..
          ( $self->parseDir( "$path/$_", $out, $target )
        )
    } @files;

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However, it also doesn't make sense because you are using grep in a void context. grep is meant to filter a list (reduce some of the contents out of list1 into list2). If you just want to apply a block of code against every item in a list, think of using map or foreach. Most folks here will complain, likewise, if you use map in a void context (for the same reason, sort of, that I complain about you using grep... the purpose of map (in perl) is to *mutate* a list... although in some other language paradigms one might think of map as making sense in a void context... but that's another argument). 
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In reply to Re: Confusing syntax error with grep by etcshadow
in thread Confusing syntax error with grep by gumpu

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