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If you decide to go the route suggested by Fletch and roboticus of writing/using a parser, you may find Parse::RecDescent useful.

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Re^2: Speeding up a large regex match pattern
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2009 at 19:34 UTC
    If the goal is to speed things up, PRD is probably not the way to go, although it could be a useful tool to help develop the grammar that will later be implemented using more efficient means.
      Thank you for the help everyone. Consider this question answered. :)