Finding matched parentheses

[Peter Haworth]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> I tired your script on the string:
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> aa(ss)(xx)(yy)
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> it only returned the parens bracketing "ss"
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I Think that's what he wants to do - just find the position of the first
set of parentheses, taking nested parens into account.  But not sure.....

Personally, I'd use the regex that Thierry posted a couple of days back.
 No recursion involved and one line of code does the job.

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