Re^2: Text::Balanced not extracting

Yeah I saw that but wasn't too sure what they meant by a prefix. I wonder why they built the module that way. Seems like there would be cases you'd want to use something like this were the "prefix" wouldn't be known in advance.

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Re^3: Text::Balanced not extracting by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 16, 2010 at 22:52 UTC
I haven't used this module before today so I can't offer any deep insight into the ways things have been set up. I did wonder (exactly as you have) why it's set up like this. I've just successfully tried the following: `my ($extracted,$remainder) = extract_bracketed($text,'()', ($text =~ m{ \A ( [^(]+ ) }msx)[0]);` You might choose to use something like that in all cases that might have an unknown prefix. I haven't checked out the solution below (by Khen1950fx) - that may be preferable. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Text::Balanced not extracting
by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 16, 2010 at 22:52 UTC

I haven't used this module before today so I can't offer any deep insight into the ways things have been set up.

I did wonder (exactly as you have) why it's set up like this.

I've just successfully tried the following:

my ($extracted,$remainder) = extract_bracketed($text,'()', ($text =~ m{ \A ( [^(]+ ) }msx)[0]);

You might choose to use something like that in all cases that might have an unknown prefix.

I haven't checked out the solution below (by Khen1950fx) - that may be preferable.

-- Ken

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