Re^2: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing

[bontchev]

Thanks, you've been the most helpful one so far. Sadly, the above solution also doesn't solve the problem properly. However, I managed to combine it with another of the regular expressions that was proposed, plus some code for better resolving the escape sequences in the string, plus a better way of removing the quotes (only from the ends of the string - not from everywhere).

Here is what I managed to come up with:

use strict;
use warnings;

while (my $data = <DATA>)
{
	if ($data =~ /\@include/i)
	{
		$data =~ m/\@include\s+('^'+'|"^"+"|.+?(?<!\\))\s/gi;
		my $fname = $1;
		$fname =~ s/\\(rnt'"\\ )/"qq|\\$1|"/gee;
		$fname =~ s/^"(.*)"$/$1/s or
		$fname =~ s/^'(.*)'$/$1/s;
		print "File name: <$fname>\n";
	}
}

__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?
#@Include file
#	@include		"\"another one\""	hmmm...
# some stuff

The "if" is there because, as I've mentioned above, I have to do some other processing of the lines, too. This code mostly works although, as you say, it doesn't handle properly file names containing escaped quotes.

Perhaps I should give up the idea of parsing this in some clever way and just process the part after the "@include" character-by-character?