See these links and the links they link Re: POD style regex for inline HTML elements, Re^2: POD style regex for inline HTML elements, Re: Help with regex - find captured pattern twice, Re^3: Parsing mysqldump files, Re: print output from the text file., Re: String Search, Re: regex extraction for variable number of args

• ** Eternal question of parsing parentheses
• Re^2: parsing XML fragments (xml log files) with... a regex
• recursive algorithm for nested data structures
• balanced parens regexp hangs - solved
• A regexp to parse nested brackets containing strings
• Elegant examples to parse parenthesised strings
• Regexp::Common balanced curlies substitution
• RFC: A walkthrough from JSON ABNF to Regexp::Grammars
• How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and unmaintainable code?
• perlfaq6#Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
• Re: Regex priorities

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