Did you even bother to read the question? Text::Balanced parses strings with nested paired delimiters. Apart from the fact that it has “balanced” in its name, it has nothing to do with the OP’s problem.

What baffles me even more is that >20 people upvoted this vacuous suggestion, for whatever reason.

Makeshifts last the longest.

I did bother... and IMVHO I think it could help out the OP.

Ok, I didn't post *the* solution, but you probably also know there's always more than one way to solve a problem in Perl. This one isn't maybe the easiest, or fastest, or most elegant one... but I still think it could help.

btw: you can always downvote me if you don't like what I said ;)

pussy ass code to proof (I hate proofing) I did bother:


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