<plug type="shameless">You could suggest they check out the OGRE for an explanation of the regex, too. ;) </plug>

But honestly, you might want to avoid the regex altogether. My solution might be construed as worse line noise, though, but it depends on how you comment it. 

use warnings;
use strict;

my (@results, @final, %seen);

while(<>){
  tr/\0//d;  # strip NULs

  # if we're INSERTing into Photo (but not from)...
  if (/(?<!from )INSERT INTO Photo/) {
    # get: BEFORE (INSIDE) AFTER from string
    my @s = split /[()]/;
    push @results, [ $s[0], "($s[1])", $s[2] ];
  }
}

# sort by the values in parens
@final = sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } @results;

open OUT, ">results.txt" or die $!;

for my $line (@final) {
  my $fieldNames = $line->[1];

  # if we've never seen these values, print
  if (not $seen{$fieldNames}) {
    print OUT @$line;
    $seen{$fieldName}++;
  }
}
close OUT;

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Of course, you could split more trickily, but it looks more like line noise then. 
    # split BEFORE a ( or AFTER a )
    my @s = split /(?=\()|(?<=\))/;
    push @results, \@s;

### that even lets you get away with leaving out @s

    push @results, [ split /(?=\()|(?<=\))/ ];

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And you could condense the "seen" logic to: 
  # display the line if we've never seen the fields
  print OUT @$line if not $seen{$line->[1]}++;

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But that might be too idiomatic for lazy people to spend time understanding.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

In reply to Re: Trying to avoid line noise (brain cramp) by japhy
in thread Trying to avoid line noise (brain cramp) by Ovid

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