Wow, thank you ALL for your prompt replies! So many options... :-)
I decided to check out the module Text::Balanced, since it seems it could be useful to me not just for this problem but in the future.
But... I'm having some problems with it. I'm wondering why the below code does not work. I'm expecting this piece of code to extract "(x,y,z)", and put ", Param2(1,2,3), Param3(a,b,c)" in the remainder, and "Param1" in the prefix. But it doesn't work. It puts everything in the remainder. 
$string = "Param1(x,y,z), Param2(1,2,3), Param3(a,b,c)";
print "Original string: ", $string,  "\n";

($ext,$rem,$pre) =extract_bracketed($string,'()','.*?');
print "extracted: ", $ext, "\n";
print "remainder: ", $rem, "\n";
print "skip pref: ", $pre, "\n";

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Emma

In reply to Re^2: search for matching parentheses by Anonymous Monk
in thread search for matching parentheses by embirath

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