Hi,

Just remove the matching string (and whatever's left over) when you find that the RE matches. The matched string will be in $1 as normal and the original string will be trimmed to just the prefix. 

use strict; use warnings; use 5.010;
use Regexp::Common 'RE_balanced';

my $string = 'The use of parentheses (indicates that the ' .
   '(writer [considered] the {information}) less ' .
   '<important—almost> an afterthought).';

my $match = RE_balanced( -parens => '(){}[]<>' );

$string =~ s/${match}.*//;
$1 and say ">$_<" for $string, $1;

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Output: 
$ perl 11114819.pl
>The use of parentheses <
>(indicates that the (writer [considered] the {information}) less <imp
+ortant—almost> an afterthought)<

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Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: bracket processing by 1nickt
in thread bracket processing by rajaman

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