Brackets in brackets, braces in braces

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Apr 16 13:17:40 EDT 2002


    Arpad> How can I find strings [using regular expressions] ... Where in
    Arpad> the braces can be also another braces.

In general, you can't.  As Tim Peters and others have pointed out in the
past, regular expressions can't count.  You need a more powerful parser than
re's to properly handle nested constructs.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)





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