On May 1, 7:44 pm, NevilleDNZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is a (flawed) one line RegEx that checks curly brackets (from > awk/c/python input) are being matched. Is there a one liner for doing > this in python?
There is not even a 1000-liner regular expression for this; it's a context-free language [1], not a regular one [2]. Either do it manually or use a parser generator [3]. George [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_language [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language [3] http://wiki.python.org/moin/LanguageParsing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
