Hi, I am wondering if I am heading in the right direction. I am trying to parse a file that looks similar to blocks {} in perl. Example: 
my $contents = qq(
create item "xxx" {
  remove entry "xxx"
  add entry "yy" "xxx" {
     item1=xxxx,
     item2=xxxx,
  }
  add diffenent entry "xxx" {
     item1=xxx,
     item2=xxxx,
     item3=xxx
     add subitem {
         item1=xxx,
         item2=xxx,
         item3=xxx
      }
      add subitem {
         item1=xxx,
         item2=xxx,
      }
   }
   another type {
        item1=xxx
   } with "xxx"
 }
);

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This is a bit tricky with all the differnt blocks. I started by splitting on newline into an array, then iterating the lines. 

  # I remove the C-style comments prior to this
  my @lines = split(/\n/,$list);
  my $level = 0;
  for (@lines) {
       print "$level:$_\n";
       $level++ if /\{/;
       $level-- if /\}/;
   }

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I remember doing something like this with recursion function when traversing directories. Any ideas what to try? Thanks.

2006-07-23 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'parsing'

In reply to Parsing balanced parentheses by budman

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