Hi fellow Monks,
Can anyone think of a regex to parse a string that contains items with arbitrary chars grouped together in parenthesis into a list. It should only parse the 'outermost' parenthesis though. 
E.g. $source = '(aaa) (bbb (ccc( ddd) eee) (fff)'

using:   (@destination) = ($source =~ / ...  / );

would need to result in:  
$destination[0] = 'aaa'
$destination[1] = 'bbb (ccc( ddd) eee'
$destination[2] = 'fff'

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Clearly this could be solved by using loops, functions etc yet surely there must be a way to achieve this with a single regex?

I played a bit with forward/backward anchoring etc yet the possible (non-balanced) nesting of parenthesis makes it an intriging challenge.

In reply to regex to parse (nested) parenthesis delimited string? by varian

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