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in reply to regex: finding something that doesn't contain a quotation?

Greetings,
This is just a quick suggestion
based on my understanding of your question... 
$filecontents =~ /.*?$blah\.([\w-]+)\(([^"]*)\)\s*;/;

#not really sure what $blah is holding but 
#the [\w-] can replace your [0-9a-zA-Z_\-] character class
#and \(([^"]*)\) is a greedy way of saying
#anything inside of parens that is not a quote.

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-InjunJoel

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