OK I experimented a little with eof, and I found eof (no handle, no parens) returns true on the last line. So If I extend the end side of the flipflop operator with an extra test on eof, and set a flag to true only if it succeeds because of this extra test, then I can safely check for the last match, too. I do need to modify the regex a little to allow for this, too.
#! perl -w
my $buffer;
LINE: while(<DATA>) {
my $eof; # flase by default
if(my $counter = (/^name\s.*\{/ ... (/^name\s.*\{/ || ($eof = eof)
+))) {
if($counter == 1) { # begin
$buffer = '';
}
$buffer .= $_;
if($counter =~ /E/) { # end
if($buffer =~ /name(.*?)(^name|\z)/ms) {
print "Found: $1\n";
}
redo LINE unless $eof; # retry with same line, unless en
+d condition is BECAUSE OF eof
}
}
}
__DATA__
name value {
test 1;
test 2;
test 5;
}
name three {
eat 4;
eat 5;
}
name four {
eat 6;
eat 7;
}
Result:
Found: value {
test 1;
test 2;
test 5;
}
Found: three {
eat 4;
eat 5;
}
Found: four {
eat 6;
eat 7;
}
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