My program is trying to read from a line and count the number of parentheses however, as you can see it's not working very well: My code runs, but does not work, as no matter what either both l_count and r_count are the same or it throws an error about the parentheses not being balanced properly...

How do I count the # of Parentheses in a string? Edit: samarzone fixed me up right and showed me what I was doing wrong. It has thus been fixed: 

sub parenth {
my ($string) = (@_);
    my $l_count = () = ($string =~ /\(/g);
    my $r_count = () = ($string =~ /\)/g);
        if ($l_count != $r_count) {
            print "There is no balance on this line! Did you format it
+ correctly???";
            return 0;
        }
        else { 
            print "There is balance in this universe"; 
            return 1;
            }
}

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Any thoughts on how to implement such parsing methods without regex (is that even possible?)

Or just ideas in general for uses, as such?

In reply to IT's not counting... by Dwood

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