recursive regex

I have a regex I'm performing on a file that takes a
given string, manipulates it, and replaces the string
with the new string. I want this do be done
recursively on each line in case there are multiple
sections that need to be dealt with. I'm currently
using something like:

while(<$file>){
	WHILE:while() {
		if ($string =~ /begin(.*?)end/) {
			my $perl = $1;
			my $eval = eval $perl;
			$string =~s/begin.*?end/$eval/;
		} else {last WHILE}
	}
}

It looks sort of clunky to me, and I don't trust the
subsitution even if it does work, but I can't seem to
get it to work using $perl or $1 in place of the
/.*?/. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions
for making it nicer, shorter, or cleaner?

~wren

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• recursive regex by Nicholas Thornton
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