hi monks,
i'm trying to write something that will pass a string as such:
"( foo ) AND ( bar OR boo ) NOT ( far )"
into a hash which i can then use to run some "tests".
so far this is the code i have: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $term = "( foo ) AND ( bar OR boo ) NOT ( far )";

# This regex isn't right
my (@matches) = ( $term =~ /( )?(AND|OR|NOT)?( )?(\((.*)\))?/g );

# Testing
print $_,"\n" foreach (@matches);

# My plan was pull out all the parens and their contents
# + the preceeding condition
# then modify those result to put into a hash in the same
# structure as below.

# This is what the results should come out as
my %tests = ();
$tests{1} = { condition => "", terms => [ "foo" ] };
$tests{2} = { condition => "AND", terms => [ "bar", "OR foo" ] };
$tests{3} = { condition => "NOT", terms => [ "far" ] };
print Dumper(\%tests);

exit;

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before i went any further i just wanted to see if anyone could suggest a better way of dealing with it?
if not, could anyone help me out with the regex?
cheers,
reagen

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