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#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $re = qr{

    (?&opengamediv)              (?# opening div contating start of data ) 

    id="(?<gameid>\d+)-game"     (?# gameid --> id='12345-game' -> 12345 )

    (?<content>.*?)              (?# Skip a lot of content non-greedily )

    (?&comment_open)             (?# open comment contatining status )

    (?<gamestate>\d+)            (?# gamestatus=12344 -> 12344 )

    (?&comment_close)            (?# closing comment to make sure we get all digits )

(?# Rules )
(?(DEFINE)
  (?<opengamediv><div\s* class="game"\s*  )(?# This comes before our data )
  (?<comment_open> <!--gamestatus\s* =\s* )(?# game status in a comment )
  (?<comment_close> -->                   )(?# overkill    )
)}xsim;

my @d = ();

my $s = <<'EOF';
<div class="game" id="12345-game"> hello world fooo bar
    <!--gamestatus=1288-->
</div>
EOF

if ( $s =~ $re ) {
    print "The Expression matched, resulting variables were discovered. : \n";
    for my $key ( keys %+ ) {
        printf "\t%s: %s\n", $key, $+{$key};
    }
    print "Used Expression: \n", $re, "\n";
}
else {
    print "The Content Did not match the expression: \n", $re, "\n";
}