Compare your original version (with all regexes reduced to regex to alleviate noise) 

sub buildTables {
    while (<>) { 
        if (/regex/)
        { $theme_table{$1} = $2 }
        if (/regex/)
        { $taglist_table{$1} = $2 }
        if (/regex/)
        { $menu_table{$1} = $2 }
        }
        #print Dumper \%theme_table;
        #print Dumper \%taglist_table;
        #print Dumper \%menu_table;
}

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with this alternative version 

sub buildTables {
    while (<>) {
        if (/regex/) {
            $theme_table{$1} = $2
        }   
        if (/regex/) {
            $taglist_table{$1} = $2
        }   
        if (/regex/) {
            $menu_table{$1} = $2
        }   
    }
}

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Which looks clearer to you? Is the closing brace of the while loop more or less obvious to you now? How about providing me with some examples of code that looks like yours.

-- Ken

In reply to Re^5: Regex help/ Lua parse by kcott
in thread Regex help/ Lua parse by marquezc329

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