[Israel.pm] recursive regex

[Omer Zak]

Another solution is to transform your data into XML (should not be 
difficult, given the pattern matching and replacing capabilities of Perl).

This involves also transforming the tokens, which should recursively 
match, into XML tags.

Then use one of the standard XML parsers to manipulate your data.

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Shlomo Yona wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>A,B,C  are macros that are used later, and I want to save them in my script
>>for other needs.
>>if I do:
>>
>>while ( /BEGIN_(\w+).+?END_(\1)/sg)
>>{ print "$1,$2;}
>>
>>
>>I don't see the C macro, because it is inside B.  How can I solve it nicely
>>?
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Is this what you have in mind?
> 
> while(<DATA>) {
>         print_begin_end_macro($1) if /BEGIN_(\S+)/;
> }
> 
> sub print_begin_end_macro {
>         my ($what)=@_;
>         while(<DATA>) {
>                 if (/END_$what/) {
>                         print qq{BEGIN_$what\tEND_$what\n} if /END_$what/;
>                         return;
>                 }
>                 print_begin_end_macro($1) if /BEGIN_(\S+)/;
>         }
> 
> }
> 
> __DATA__
> BEGIN_A
> ...
> END_A
> 
> BEGIN_B
> BEGIN_C
> ...
> END_C
> END_B