S.A. Birl wrote:
Wondering if it's possible to have 2 counters that would keep track
of the number of < and > encountered.
Im looking to see if there's a balance of < and >, and scream as soon
as there isnt a balance.
So given the above bookmark, I know that there's 3 < and 3 > and
the pattern is basically <><><> and not <<>> or >><, etc.
Assuming that you are actually not interested in *counting* them, this
is one approach:
print "Oops!\n" unless $string =~ /^[^<>]*(?:(?:<[^<>]*>)*[^<>]*)*$/;
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