I would recommend using the CPAN module as suggested by larsen. However I am presenting this solution just for fun... :-)
use strict; use warnings; my $str = 'I am (giving this (text to (tell you) that this) will give) + you the result)))'; my $match = ''; { local $_ = $str; my $n = 0; s/([()]|.)/ if ($1 eq '(') { $n++; $match .= $1 } elsif ($1 eq ')') { if ($n) { $n--; $match .= $1 } } else { $match .= $1 if $n } /gex; } print "$match\n"; __END__ # output (giving this (text to (tell you) that this) will give)


In reply to Re: RegEx for Matching paranthesis by Roger
in thread RegEx for Matching paranthesis by Anonymous Monk

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