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diff --git a/userdiff.c b/userdiff.c
index 1ff4797..e55310c 100644
--- a/userdiff.c
+++ b/userdiff.c
@@ -60,10 +60,24 @@ PATTERNS("pascal",
"|[-+0-9.e]+|0[xXbB]?[0-9a-fA-F]+"
"|<>|<=|>=|:=|\\.\\."),
PATTERNS("perl",
- "^[ \t]*package .*;\n"
- "^[ \t]*sub .* \\{\n"
- "^[A-Z]+ \\{\n" /* BEGIN, END, ... */
- "^=head[0-9] ", /* POD */
+ "^package .*\n"
+ "^sub [[:alnum:]_':]+[ \t]*"
+ "(\\([^)]*\\)[ \t]*)?" /* prototype */
+ /*
+ * Attributes. A regex can't count nested parentheses,
+ * so just slurp up whatever we see, taking care not
+ * to accept lines like "sub foo; # defined elsewhere".
+ *
+ * An attribute could contain a semicolon, but at that
+ * point it seems reasonable enough to give up.
+ */
+ "(:[^;#]*)?"
+ "(\\{[ \t]*)?" /* brace can come here or on the next line */
+ "(#.*)?$\n" /* comment */
+ "^(BEGIN|END|INIT|CHECK|UNITCHECK|AUTOLOAD|DESTROY)[ \t]*"
+ "(\\{[ \t]*)?" /* brace can come here or on the next line */
+ "(#.*)?$\n"
+ "^=head[0-9] .*", /* POD */
/* -- */
"[[:alpha:]_'][[:alnum:]_']*"
"|0[xb]?[0-9a-fA-F_]*"