Hi monks im trying to complete my homework but i got stuck in between...This is my 2 nd week of learning perl and im not very good wiht regex...Im trying to extract some text from a C file and im writing to a .doc file..

The C file format is

Function: stdio.h
Input: None
Output : Performs Standard input output operations

<Some Code here>

Function: math.h
Input: Mathematical operators
Ouput: Performs mathematical operations
<Some Code here>
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The output in the .doc file should be like this

Function: stdio.h
Output:
Performs Standard input output operations
Input:
None

Function: math.h
Output:
Performs mathematical operations
Input:
Mathematical operators
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Im have written a snippet to open MS Word and read the .c file and extract the function name and the snippet is below:-

use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word'; 
use Cwd;
use File::Find;

//MS Word Opening
my $word = CreateObject Win32::OLE 'Word.Application' or die $!;
$word->{'Visible'} = 1;
my $document = $word->Documents->Add;
my $selection = $word->Selection;

my @scriptfiles;
my $text;
my @array;
our $file;

@scriptfiles=glob('*.c');
foreach $file (glob('*.c'))
{ 
    open(my $fh, $file) or die("Unable to open '$file': $!");  
    while (my $line = <$fh>)
    {
        if ($line =~ /Function:\s*(.+)/ )
        {
            $selection -> TypeText($line); 
        }
    }
    
    }
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The issue is how to extract the Input and output from the .c file. Im extracting Function name first then i have to extract Output and then input..im currently reading the .c file ($line = <$fh>) and searching for the function name how to do the same for Output and Input..pls teach me thanks...

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