Jasmine
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Mar 15, 2001, 6:03 AM
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Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanc
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Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
Although Perl regular expressions are more powerful than ``mathematical'' regular expressions, because they feature conveniences like backreferences (\1 and its ilk), they still aren't powerful enough. You still need to use non-regexp techniques to parse balanced text, such as the text enclosed between matching parentheses or braces, for example.
An elaborate subroutine (for 7-bit ASCII only) to pull out balanced and possibly nested single chars, like ` and ', { and }, or ( and ) can be found in http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/pull_quotes.gz .
The C::Scan module from CPAN contains such subs for internal usage, but they are undocumented.
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