Hello Monks, I'm having a junior moment, not understanding how to use Text::Balanced on a fairly simple set of text. I have a string containing nested square brackets I'd like to parse out into its useful elements. Here's my code:

use Text::Balanced;

my $str = "  ['listliteral',['ListLiteral',['../classSPL_1_1Operator_1
+_1Instance_1_1ExpressionTree_1_1ListLiteral.html',1,'SPL::Operator::I
+nstance::ExpressionTree']]]";


@matches = Text::Balanced::extract_bracketed( $str, '[]' );

foreach (@matches) {
    print "$_\n";
}

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This yields:

['listliteral',['ListLiteral','../classSPL_1_1Operator_1_1Instance_1_1Expression nTree_1_1ListLiteral.html',1,'SPL::Operator::Instance::ExpressionTree']]

What I'd like is for each [..] to be its own value in @matches. How do I do that?

And yes I did try reading the doc, but it's way over my junior head :-( ... thanks

In reply to using Text::Balanced by slugger415

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