in reply to Re^2: How to find the outermost pair of square brackets with a regex?
in thread How to find the outermost pair of square brackets with a regex?

sorry, i meant to say...

that's beautiful...

so, if i have this right... match the first bracket; IF, non-backtracking, we find an additional [ or ], then recurse; match the last bracket?

what is the purpose of the ^?

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Re^4: How to find the outermost pair of square brackets with a regex?
by lokiloki (Beadle) on Jan 17, 2007 at 02:26 UTC
    oops, caret is inverted character class
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