use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 1; my $want = <<'EOT'; if(/ok .*$/) { if(m/a good match/( { $string =~ s/[a-f]//g; # but print this line ( $string ) = ( $string =~ /(show this)/)); /but show\/this, too/ EOT my $have = ''; while () { $have .= $_ if m~^(?!#)[^/]*/[^/]+(\\/|/(?!\w+/?))~; } is $have, $want; __DATA__ #!/usr/bin/perl foo bar foo/bar /src/bin/oops/otehnoes if(/ok .*$/) { print "not OK\n"; } # skip a comment if(m/a good match/( { print "not ok\n"; } # do not /print/ this line either $string =~ s/[a-f]//g; # but print this line ( $string ) = ( $string =~ /(show this)/)); /but show\/this, too/ my $butdontprintthis = "/var/cache/dictionaries-common";