A hard challenge anyone?

[Kay C Lan]

OK here is the updated script which takes into account an uneven number of (
or ) which is only likely to occur within quotes. It does this by simply NOT
doing anything whilst within quotes.

Here is the single line of code I tested it on:
put offset("(","some text ( sin(a + b)/tan(c*d)") &
afunct(bfunct(dfunct([hfunct(1)+sin(1)+tan(1)*jfunct(2)]/kfunct(3))+efunct(4)),cfunct(ffunct(5)-gfunct(6)))=afunct("(","(")
into tMyData

Note the use of function names right against tokens, to help confuse the
matter:-)

The result was:
offset()
afunct()
bfunct()
dfunct()
hfunct()
sin()
tan()
jfunct()
kfunct()
efunct()
cfunct()
ffunct()
gfunct()
afunct()

Which includes not only inbuilt and custom functions, but multiple
occurrences of functions. If it means anything they are also listed in the
order that they occur.

NOTE though, that it doesn't register the sin() and tan() functions that
occur in quotes in the offset function! Only the sind() and tan() in
hfunct() are listed. Again, how often do you feed function names within
quotes into a variable for latter use will determine how much time you want
to spend on covering this situation;-)

The following line was removed:
filter tMyFunctionResult without "()"
as taking into account quoted text seemed to remove any blank lines.

The script has been turned into a function so you'd just feed it the line of
script in a repeat loop. Obviously if the line doesn't contain any "(" it
doesn't need to be fed into this function.

Script Below
Watch For Line Breaks
50 lines of code, each starting with it's respective line number
--------
1  FUNCTION fFunctionFinder pMyData
2   put 1 into tMyFunctionOpen
3   put 1 into tMyFunctionClose
4   put "closed" into tMyQuotes
5   put the number of characters of pMyData into tMyCharCount
6   REPEAT with tMyChar = 1 to tMyCharCount
7    SWITCH
8     --needs to occur first so that you know when quotes close
9     CASE ((char tMyChar of pMyData = quote) AND (tMyQuotes = "open"))
10     put "closed" into tMyQuotes
11    break
12    --catch for opening quotes
13    CASE ((char tMyChar of pMyData = quote) AND (tMyQuotes = "closed"))
14     put "open" into tMyQuotes
15    break
16     --the following 3 CASE are irrelevant unless outside quotes
17    CASE ((char tMyChar of pMyData = "(") AND (tMyQuotes = "closed"))
18     put (tMySpaceStore + 1) into item 1 of line tMyFunctionOpen of
tMyFunctionStore
19     put tMyChar into item 2 of line tMyFunctionOpen of tMyFunctionStore
20     add 1 to tMyFunctionOpen
21     put tMyChar into tMySpaceStore
22    break
23    CASE ((char tMyChar of pMyData = ")") AND (tMyQuotes = "closed"))
24     put tMyChar into item 3 of line tMyFunctionClose of tMyFunctionStore
25     add 1 to tMyFunctionClose
26     put tMyChar into tMySpaceStore
27    break
28    CASE ((char tMyChar of pMyData = " ") AND (tMyQuotes = "closed"))
29     put tMyChar into tMySpaceStore
30    break
31   END SWITCH
32  END REPEAT
33  REPEAT for each line tMyLine in tMyFunctionStore
34   put char (item 1 of tMyLine) to (item 2 of tMyLine) of pMyData & ")" &
return after tMyFunctionResult
35  END REPEAT
36  --where function names immediately follows a token the token is included
at the front of the function name. this removes it
37  replace comma with empty in tMyFunctionResult
38  replace "=" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
39  replace "+" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
40  replace "-" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
41  replace "*" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
42  replace "/" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
43  replace "[" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
44  replace "]" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
45  replace "{" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
46  replace "}" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
47  replace "<" with empty in tMyFunctionResult
48  replace "." with empty in tMyFunctionResult
49  return tMyFunctionResult
50 END fFunctionFinder
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HTH
PS Origininally tried to replace the tokens with the efficient:
put "=, +, -, *, /, [, ], {, }, <, >" into tMyTokens
REPEAT for each item tMyItem in tMyTokens
 replace tMyItem with empty in tMyFunctionResult
END REPEAT

and even tried this as the replace line above:

replace quote & tMyItem & quote with empty in tMyFunctionResult

but neither worked. Bug?