Hi everyone
I was wondering if there is an easy way to search a string for matching parentheses, using the m// and s/// methods.

What I mean is the following. Say we have the string that looks like this:
Parameter1(info, blah), Parameter2(new info(DN), blah)...

I want to be able to extract each parameter and its information within the parentheses. So I want my search procedure to ignore the parentheses "(DN)" in teh second parameter. So I want to be able to extract:
"Parameter1(info, blah)", and
"Parameter2(new info(DN), blah)"

as two new strings.

I can probably sit down and write a page long program to do it... but I'm wondering if there is a short-cut available. Some kind of notation within the // that tells it to "find next parentheses, and ITS matching end-parentheses"...

Let me know if you have any ideas!
Thanks!
Emma

In reply to search for matching parentheses by embirath

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