I'm pretty new to perl, and have a problem which I just can't figure out. I'm have a file which is autogenerated, and has some entries in a specific layout. I want to suck these into a hash, which I can then sort into alphabetical order according to the entry title. The file entries look like this: 
CALCON(test1)
{
  TYPE(U8)
  FEATURE(DCOM)
  NAM(stmin)
  LABEL(Min seperation time between CFs)
  MIN(0)
  MAX(127)
  UNITS(ms)  
}

CALCON(test2)
{
  TYPE(U16)
  FEATURE(DCOM)
  NAM(dcomc_sestmr_timeout)
  LABEL(DCOM Session Timer Timeout)
  MIN(0)
  MAX(65535)
  UNITS(ms)
}

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and my loop in perl looks like this: 
while ($content =~m/^(CAL.+\((\w+)\))/mg){
        print "\n1= $1";
        print "\n2= $2";
}

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so I'm trying to get the variable name (for example "test1") then also the data entry: 
CALCON(test1)
{
  TYPE(U8)
  ...
  ...
}

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so as to make the hash. Only I can't get it to work. Adding /s to the exp match means I only get the last name in brackets. Can anyone help?? Many thanks, Rob.

In reply to nested reg ex over multiple lines by eg8rds

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