Monks, Is there any easy way to parse multi-line blocks (ie: configuration files)? I assume there are existing modules to do this, but my (admittedly weak) CPAN search skills haven't come up with anything. Learning Parse::RecDescent seems like it may be overkill in this situation (right?)... In any case, syntax of the file I'm attempting to parse is: 
$type $key {
    $type2 $data
    $type2 $data
}

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e.g. 
self 192.168.49.167 {
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   unit 1
   floating enable
   vlan public
   allow default
}
pool EIS-ORMI-Pool {
   lb method observed
   monitor all ORIM_https_monitor
   members
      192.168.11.192:6003
      192.168.11.173:6003
      10.125.11.213:6003
      10.125.11.214:6003
}

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Thanks in advance!
-s.

In reply to Parsing multi-line blocks by sschneid

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