Hi, I hope this is the right forum for my question. I think I start my journey into the world of Perl with this problem. There is an existing code base and my team has made some enhancements to it, spreading across files in different directories, all under one directory (/usr/src). The code added, if it is multiple lines, is between comment tags (LM-2006-01), as shown below. 
 
/* LM-2006-01 */
code modification spawning more than 1 line.
/* LM-2006-01 */

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If the code enhancement is only one line, the above comment tag succeeds the code in the same line, as shown below. 
 
int my_var; /* LM-2006-01 */

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I want to count the total number of lines that I have modified across the files. Also I do not want to count the comment lines, C style comments, embedded inside the code modifications and I do not want to count lines if it has only "{" or "}". What is the best tool for it? Perl, sed, awk? If it is Perl, can someone just give me hints as to what keywords should I look for in Perl tutorials to get started. If any other tool is well suited, I would really appreciate it if I can be redirected to a proper forum or if I can be given some hints. I don't have the option of using Python. Thanks a lot. Anoop.

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