Finding matched parentheses

[Peter Haworth]

Yes, I can believe that. don't think regex is the most efficient thing in
the world.  Some of the tests I did resulted in LC running out of memory
too!  That's another thing I think should work better with matchText and
matchChunk.  Any errors, eg a bad regex, result in a runtime error - would
be much better if they put something into the result.

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


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked, and your solution and my strictTotalMatching function return
> identical results. It took me a while to figure out how it works. It's very
> clever, but interestingly, not very efficient -- it almost certainly
> doesn't matter for the likely use cases, but if you throw a string with a
> few thousand (s and )s at it, seconds will go by before you get the result.
>
> gc
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:02 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I am old fashioned. And late. I think this works:
> >
> >
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >    answer findNests(fld 1)
> > end mouseUp
> >
> >
> > function findNests var
> >    repeat with y = 1 to the number of chars in var
> >       if char y of var = "(" then put y & return after lefts --build list
> > of left paren
> >       if char y of var = ")" then put y & return after rights --build
> list
> > of right paren
> >    end repeat
> >    put 0 & return before rights
> >
> >    repeat with y = the number of lines of lefts down to 1
> >       repeat with u = the number of lines of rights down to 1
> >          if line y of lefts < line u of rights and line y of lefts > line
> > u-1 of rights then
> >             put line y of lefts & "," & line u of rights & return after
> > accum
> >             delete line y of lefts
> >             if line u of rights <> 0 then delete line u of rights
> >          end if
> >       end repeat
> >    end repeat
> >    sort accum numeric
> >    return accum
> > end findNests
> >
> >
> > The returned list orders the char numbers of the paired parens.
> >
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com>
> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > Sent: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:09 pm
> > Subject: Re: Finding matched parentheses
> >
> >
> > 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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