Well CountZero!!!! thanx a lot for the solution but I need to extract the query at the time of file reading like my code is 
if($data =~ /(^\.def)[.+]\.\.$/smx){


$data =~ s/(^\. \w+ \s )(\w+)(\s+)(.+)(^\. \.$)/$2,$4/smx){

print "This is Macro $data \n";

}

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and macro defined in the file is 
.define get_input
        select key,  key1, key2,
               passkey3, passkey4, print_name
          into input_booking_seq, fax_header, file_no,
               input_print_rates, myNoteId, print_name
          from ed_table
         where ed_table.tag = 'BOOK'
           and ed_table.key = 'PRINT'
           and ed_table.user_id = user
..

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and I need to extract the macro name "get_input" and the content i.e. query at the time of parsing the file.... Please help me out....

In reply to Re^2: Converting Oracle report language code into perl by denzil_cactus
in thread Converting Oracle report language code into perl by denzil_cactus

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