Hi guys. I have a large .cat file made up from hundreds of c source files. I have a list of functions in the project, collated from another perl tool I have written, and these are in a hash. What I need to do is for each function, find the definition (not calls, or declarations) in the cat file, and extract that that for further analysis. The functions are fairly well behaved, for example; 
uint8_t foo_function (uint16_t foo, char bar)
{
 /*some code here*/
}

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but I'm having serious trouble getting it done with regexs. I haven't slept in a while and have nearly thrown my laptop out of the window a couple of time, so help would be very much appreciated guys ;oD

In reply to pattern matching c-style function definitions :o( by barryscott

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