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in reply to Re: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing
in thread Help with a regular expression for file name parsing

Your regular expression works, but the code is rather a muddle. Here's a version that he can use to test with:

$data = join '', <DATA>; print "$_\n" for $data =~ m[\@include\s('[^']+'|"[^"]+"|.+?(?<!\\))\s] +g; __DATA__ #some "random stuff" @include "some file" did you parse that? #more 'random' stuff @include 'another file' you sure? #and more random stuff @include yet\ another\ file positive?

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Re^3: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing
by bontchev (Sexton) on Dec 07, 2011 at 12:07 UTC
    When tested with this version, the output is just 1
      Are you sure you copied it correctly? I get this:
      "some file" 'another file' yet\ another\ file