use strict;
my $str = 'using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ConsoleApplication7
{
/// <summary>
/// Blah blah
/// </summary>
/// engineer: blehbleh
public class Class1
{
/// <summary>
/// constructor
/// </summary>
/// engineer: mme
public Class1()
{
}
/// <summary>
/// get data
/// </summary>
/// <param name="i">i param</param>
/// <returns>o param</returns>
public int GetData(int i)
{
return i;
}
}
}';
my $regex = qr~^(?![ \t]*///[ \t]*engineer).*[\r\n]+\s*((?:public|private).*)~mp;
if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) {
print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n";
# print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n";
# print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n";
}
# ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p'
# Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html