regular expression for nested matching braces

[Henrik Motakef]

"Paul M" <p.magwene at snet.net> writes:

> Is it possible to create a regular expression for searching for the
> outermost matching braces in a string in which there may be nested braces?

Not really. However, there is a Python wrapper for sgrep (structured
grep) that could be useful.

Sorry, I don't have a link. Try Google or Freshmeat.

hth
Henrik