Finding matched parentheses
Thierry Douez
th.douez at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 13:10:25 EDT 2013
2013/7/26 Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com>
> 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.
>
Yes, that was my understanding..
There are solutions for recursive pattern matching with PCRE, but
never being able to make them work within LC.
Regards,
Thierry
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
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