in reply to Nesting regexen

In addition to Daedalus207' fix, you are also missing a close paren literal in your subroutine regex:

my $subroutine = qr/((\w+::)*\w+\($sub_args\))/; # ^

You might also want to add some optional whitespace at strategic points unless you are striping this first.

Your regex would be easier to read and maintain if you used /x.

my $subroutine = qr/ ( (\w+::)* \w+ \( $sub_args \) ) /x;

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Re^2: Nesting regexen
by colink (Novice) on Jul 11, 2005 at 18:29 UTC
    The code that I posted is hacked up as the result of about two hours of debugging. The original used /x and matched the closing paren.