Update:
Looking at it now, this is not going to work.
If I wish to have all the input on one line, I'd still need the look ahead. For example, the above solution will not fix multiple inline statements [head]Title Text[body]Blah Blah Blah

In replace of the lookahead, I can think of two simple solutions using split: I'd either need to first loop through the string and place an inline character before each [\w*] pattern, or I can delimit on the pattern itself.

So this is what I came up with: 
   sub formatCode2{
      my $code = shift;
      my @arrCode = split (/\[([^\]]*)\]/, $code);
      my $size = @arrCode;

    # print whatever b4 1st delimiter
      if (@arrCode >= 1) {
         $_ = $arrCode[0];
         s/\n/<br \/>/ig;
         print qq(<div class="">$_</div>);
      }
    # print sections
      for (my $cnt = 1; $cnt < @arrCode; $cnt+=2){
         $_ = $arrCode[$cnt+1];
         s/\n/<br \/>/ig;          

         print qq(<div class="$arrCode[$cnt]">$_</div>);
      }
   }

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In reply to Re^3: Recursive Regex by deMize
in thread Parsing using Regex and Lookahead by deMize

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