Thank you for the module suggestions - they offer some approaches I hadn't considered.

I got this idea from dbicdump, which generates DBIx::Class from a database schema. It saved me a lot of time and thought maybe there was something in the same vein for regex - something that can produce boilerplate that you then tweak.

At this point it's just an idea and not something I am going to actually try to do in production code. Thanks again for your advice!