I am sorry, but I can't make sense of your answer. :-( If the part marked as "code" is supposed to be a script that works - well, it doesn't; it just produces a bunch of errors.

But let's concentrate just on the regular expression, because this is what I asked for. Sadly, that doesn't work, either. :-(

Let's start with something easy:

my $data = "\@include test";
if ($data =~ /\@include\s+('[^']+'|"[^"]+"|.+?(?<!\\))\s+/g)
{
    print "File name: \"$1\"\n";
}

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This doesn't output anything at all, meaning that the parsing fails.

If we set

my $data = "\@include \'test test\'";

this outputs

File name: "'test"

which is totally wrong. It should output

File name: "test test"

If we try

my $data = "\@include \"test test\"";

this produces the similarly wrong

File name: ""test"

And finally, if we try

my $data = "\@include test\\ test";

it also produces no output, meaning that the matching fails

Any better suggestions?

In reply to Re^2: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing by bontchev
in thread Help with a regular expression for file name parsing by bontchev

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