Finding matched parentheses

Thierry Douez th.douez at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 03:10:04 EDT 2013


2013/7/26 Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>


> 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"
>


​But this one will work and match the first occurence:​

  if matchChunk(mystring,"(\([^)]*\)).*",tstart,tEnd)

​Regards,

Thierry
​

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