Hi there, ever thought of using the perl internal functions to import a nested data structure to a LoL? If you do not have to avoid using eval, you could do it real simple like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $string = "(a,b,(c,d,(e,f,g)))";
$string =~ s/([^,\(\)]+)/"$1"/gsm;    # quote content
$string =~ tr/\(\)/\[\]/;             # replace braces

my @LoL;                              # define list
eval("\@LoL = $test;");               # fill LoL

print Dumper @LoL;

__DATA__

Output:
$VAR1 = [
          'a',
          'b',
          [
            'c',
            'd',
            [
              'e',
              'f',
              'g'
            ]
          ]
        ];

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It is not extensively tested, but should work for most items. - frank

In reply to Re^2: Parsing nested parentheses by bassfox
in thread Parsing nested parentheses by JeffR100

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