On Dec 10, 12:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 10:12 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Dec 10, 8:53 am, Noah Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > On Dec 9, 1:41 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > A pattern that can validly be descr
On Dec 9, 10:12 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 8:53 am, Noah Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Dec 9, 1:41 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > A pattern that can validly be described as a "regular expression"
> > > cannot count and thus can't ma
On Dec 10, 8:53 am, Noah Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 1:41 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > A pattern that can validly be described as a "regular expression"
> > cannot count and thus can't match balanced parentheses. Some "RE"
> > engines provide a method of taggi
On Dec 9, 1:41 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A pattern that can validly be described as a "regular expression"
> cannot count and thus can't match balanced parentheses. Some "RE"
> engines provide a method of tagging a sub-pattern so that a match must
> include balanced () (or [] or
On Dec 10, 8:13 am, Noah Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been trying to write a regular expression that identifies a
> block of text enclosed by (potentially nested) parentheses. I've found
> solutions using other regular expression engines (for example, my text
> editor, BBEdit, which
I have been trying to write a regular expression that identifies a
block of text enclosed by (potentially nested) parentheses. I've found
solutions using other regular expression engines (for example, my text
editor, BBEdit, which uses the PCRE library), but have not been able
to replicate it using
