From: alex fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T07:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RegExp outermost ()

Chris Morris wrote:
> This may be a case where RegExp ain't the way to go, but I want to scan 
> a string with nested paren groups and extract each outermost group. Is 
> this best done in an RegExp?

Hi

No, for the reasons previous posters have pointed out. You might be 
interested in the Nested Paren Reader library on the RAA.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=npreader

I didn't write it, but it's worked for me in the past.

cheers
alex
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