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^C Is this then a 'cheapo' parse?

^I on *NIX you can grep for the subroutine identifier, or on Windows command line prompt, something like:

type *.pl | perl -e 'print grep /\b__x\b/, <>;'

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Re^2: locating specific function calls
by markov (Scribe) on Apr 11, 2007 at 15:41 UTC
    Yes, that is about what xgettext is doing to create a lexicon which needs to be translated into all languages. I would really love to build this lexicon without that trick.
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Re^2: locating specific function calls
by naikonta (Curate) on Apr 11, 2007 at 21:09 UTC
    You need double quote in Windows. But doesn't this work? 
    perl -e "print grep /\b__x\b/, <>;" *.pl

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