Well, you can do that with a regex, but it's a good degree more complicated..... 
abowley@krait:~$ (echo 'Madrid(Spain(Europe)' && echo 'Madrid(Spain(Eu
+rope))' && echo 'Madrid(Spain Europe))' && echo 'a(b(c))' && echo 'a 
+(b (c) d (e) f)') | perl -mstrict -wpe 'BEGIN { $brackets = qr#\([^()
+]*(?:(??{$brackets})[^()]*)*\)# }; s#([^)]+?)($brackets)([^(]+)# ( my
+ $s = $1 ) =~ tr/(/ /; ( my $e = $3 ) =~ tr/)/ /; $s . $2 . $e #ge;'
Madrid Spain(Europe)
Madrid(Spain(Europe))
Madrid(Spain Europe) 
a(b(c))
a (b (c) d (e) f)

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: How do I replace certain character if condition exists by kilinrax
in thread How do I replace certain character if condition exists by peppiv

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