in reply to Re: nested reg ex over multiple lines
in thread nested reg ex over multiple lines

If not P::RD, at least a more statefull parser rather than trying to do everything with just a single regex. Something like (and this is really rough and presumes curlies won't be on the same line as a declaration):

my $state = 'declaration'; my( $name, %data ); while( <> ) { if( $state eq 'declaration' ) { if( /CALCON\((.*?)\)/ ) { $name = $1; $state eq 'opencurly'; next; } } if( $state eq 'opencurly' ) { $state = 'body' if /{/; } if( $state eq 'body' ) { if( /(\S+)\(.*?\)\s*$/ ) { $data{ $name }->{ $1 } = $2; } if( /\s*}\s*$/ ) { $state = 'declaration'; } } }

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