The faqs are good, but I think the "How do I find matching/nesting anything?" in perlfaq4 should have something about handling the case when the delimiter may be present in a quoted string inside a matching set of delimiters. perlfaq4 mentions Text::Balanced, which talks about this case in the docs, but there's a good chance you will go use another module before you read about it, since it's 8 pages in.

The case is a nasty little gotcha for applications like the OPs because it ususally doesn't show up on testing; the bug often waits in production code until you've forgotten what you wrote and how it works, then it blows up with a confusing error message.

In reply to Re^2: Parsing balanced parentheses by rodion
in thread Parsing balanced parentheses by budman

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