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in reply to A Question on Regex

not sure if this is what you require, it depends on all statements ending in a semi-colon.
#!/usr/bin/perl while(<DATA>){ while (! /;$/){ chomp; $_ .=readline DATA; } print if /^\$fwrite.+;/; } __DATA__ $fwrite(f,{few parameters},fwrite(f,{kjg,kk})); $fwrite(f,koal,jirp); $fwrite(f,jrei,orowp, jgo); fwrite(f,jrei,orowp,jgo);
print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."