Finding matched parentheses
Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Thu Jul 25 22:38:20 EDT 2013
Pete-
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 6:52:15 PM, you wrote:
> This appears to work:
> get matchChunk(<string>,".*\(.*(\)).*",tstart,tEnd)
I think this is closer to what you're looking for
get matchChunk(pString,"(\(.*\)).*",tstart,tEnd)
but even that will fail when you have multiple parentheses in strings
like this:
"hello (bucko) this (is) a test"
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-Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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