Did you try
SQL::Statement? It includes an SQL-parser:
use SQL::Statement;
use Data::Dumper;
my $sql = " SELECT * from foo where bar > 1923 ";
my $parser = SQL::Parser->new();
my $stmt = SQL::Statement->new($sql,$parser);
printf "Command %s\n",$stmt->command;
printf "Columns %s\n",join',',map{$_->name} $stmt->column
+s;
printf "Tables %s\n",join',',map{$_->name} $stmt->tables
+;
print "Where operator\n",Dumper($stmt->where);
Result:
Command SELECT
Columns *
Tables FOO
Where operator
$VAR1 = bless( {
'arg2' => '1923',
'arg1' => bless( {
'table' => 'FOO',
'name' => 'BAR'
}, 'SQL::Statement::Column' ),
'neg' => 0,
'op' => '>'
}, 'SQL::Statement::Op' );
Working with the parse tree seems much easier and less error-prone than using your regex-solution.
The $stmt->where structure is a tree-structure with the arg-leaves either being a string or an object. If it is not an object, then it is trivialy easy to run it through Regexp::Common and Regexp::Common::number to check its "numberness" and what kind of number (decimal, octal, hex, ...)
CountZero
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