I've had the same challenge and solved it with a tab separated rule file. It could look something like this:

TRANCODE     QUANTITY                   QSIGN    KEYCODE    HANDLER
/(TSP|KSP)/  /^.*(?<!0000000.00000)$/   +        /(10|11|20|60)/    se
+t(TRAN_CODE, "RCV")
/(TSP|KSP)/  *                          -        /(10|11|20|60)/    se
+t(TRAN_CODE, "DLV")
...

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The table is meant as a lookup table where each value (apart from the values in the rightmost field) are lookup keys that are processed left to right like this:

The different field types have different precedence, so a * will have lower precedence than a regex, which in turn has lower precedence than a literal value.

The rightmost field is just a value that says what to do when matched. It can be a reference to some handler or just a value to insert somewhere.

I do have a module to do this kind of lookup, but it is currently not open source. If you really want it, I can ask the owners if they will let me release it.

In reply to Re: using a config file by mzedeler
in thread using a config file by mmittiga17

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