in reply to Re: pattern matching nested { }'s
in thread pattern matching nested { }'s

Thanks for your reply. I think I was a little unclear in my original post. Only the { } immediately after onValidate should match. For example: 
 
   onValidate
   {
    stuff in here
    {
       other stuff
    }
   }

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should all be removed and 
   keep this
   {
       remove this {and {this}}
   }

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should all be kept.

Thanks, Gerard.

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Re: Re: Re: pattern matching nested { }'s
by Caron (Friar) on Mar 02, 2004 at 10:34 UTC

    Well, in that case, just say it to your replacement command:

    $text =~ s/(onValidate)\s*$re/$1/g;

# or even $text =~ s/(?<=onValidate)\s*$re//g;

print $text;

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    It gives:

       onValidate
   keep this
   {
       remove this {and {this}}
   }
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