Hello Monks

I am developing a tool for analyzing different map-files. I do this by reading-in the map-file generated by i.e. ARM compiler into an Array ( as usual ) and start analyzing line by line by going through the array.

A small state machine shall do the analysis. In case specific content is found the state machine jumps into different state. One of this state-changes shall be done when following line is recognised
"      Code (inc. data)   RO Data    RW Data    ZI Data      Debug   Object Name\n".

Now I want to have a regex which matches this and only this line, so I started doing this like that:
 if ( $MapFile->[$iterator] =~m#      Code \(inc\. data\)   RO Data    RW Data    ZI Data      Debug   Object Name#){#...do something... [...]

I have escaped the braces and the dot but it does not match. ?? I want to keep it also quite simple so i have not used \s+ in the regex, but even with \s+ it does not match. I do not want to get any information from the expression so i am not using braces at all, just the match is quite important to me.

Any help is welcome!!

Best regards!
Tobias

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