Finding matched parentheses

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Fri Jul 26 12:09:02 EDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:

> But this one will work and match the first occurence:
>
>   if matchChunk(mystring,"(\([^)]*\)).*",tstart,tEnd)
>
> Regards,
>
> Thierry
>

Nice Thierry!  Doesn't handle nested parens though, but once again, that
may not be a possibility in the OP's scenario.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



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