Hi monks, I have a small problem with a regex. I'm trying to pull headers out of a select clause in a sql statement. Everything was going fine until I threw myself a loop. 
$sql = qq|
  select 'First' = first_name, 'Last' = last_name
  from table
|;
# I pull the info from the select clause like this...
$sql =~ /select(.*?)from/i;

# Then split on comma.
@select = split (/,/, $1);

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Here is my problem. I want to then split out the First and Last as headers in an array. The above example is simple as splitting on the comma. But when I get to examples like this... 
$sql = qq|
  select 'First' = coalesce(first_name, ''),
    'Last' = coalesce(last_name, '')
  from table
|;

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As you probably noticed, the comma inside the coalesce will mess with my split. So, I guess what I want to do is split on the commas, as long as they are not contained inside a set of parenthesis. I am lost on how to accomplish this with a regex. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

In reply to Pull info from select clause. by the_0ne

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