community... a fellow monk was kind enough to offer me a solution yesterday on a problem I have trying to remap a large quantity of arg lists. ie: 
# my %translate = (
#   funca => [ qr/funca\( ([^,]+) , ([^,]+) ,([^,]+) ,([^)]+) \)/x,
#              '"func($1,$2,XXX,YYY,$4)"' ],
#   funcb => [ qr/funcb\( ([^,]+) , ([^,]+) ,([^,]+) ,([^)]+) \)/x,
#             '"func($1,$2,,,$4)"' ],
#);

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I've since discovered that the arg lists in question *might* themselves contain function calls. i.e. 
funca(1,2,funcH(A,B,C),3)

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I cannot figure out how to break the regex so that it gathers  funcH(A,B,C) as a single arg. Unfortunately, these embedded functions might occur in any arg position. thoughts? thanks.

In reply to regex assistance for parsing arg list by denap

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