Re: Regular expression to match surrounding parenthesis

From: Abigail (abigail_at_abigail.nl)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: 07 Jul 2004 19:09:53 GMT

Bob (bob_nf@hotmail.com) wrote on MMMCMLXIII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:84c27559.0407071023.3aed77@posting.google.com>:
[] Hi,
[]
[] I am trying to create a regular expression to verify that user entered
[] data is surrounded by the same number of open and closed parenthesis.
[]
[] For example: if 'a' was the expression I was trying to match then a,
[] (a), ((a)), (((a)))... (((((((a))))))) would all be valid.
[]
[] I am not new to regular expressions but I am also not an expert. I
[] have spent hours searching for a solution but no luck.

You spend hours looking? Where did you look? The place I would look
first, the documentation that comes with Perl, mentions a regular
expression doing this.

[] Is this possible and if so any help would be appreciated?

Try helping yourself first.

Abigail 

-- 
perl  -e '$_ = q *4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c204861636b65720a*;
          for ($*=******;$**=******;$**=******) {$**=*******s*..*qq}
          print chr 0x$& and q
          qq}*excess********}'

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