On Thu, 05 May 2005 13:54:22 +0530, Baskaran wrote:
> How to select the content of the groups suppose the string
>
> \newcommand{\sumfun}{\sum_{i=1,2,\ldots}^{n}f(x)}
>
> if i use the command
>
> s/\\newcommand\{(.*?)\}\{(.*?)\}//g;
>
> I get the value 2nd group is "\sum_{i=1,2,\ldots" But my expected output is
> \sum_{i=1,2,\ldots}^{n}f(x)
> (i.e. i want to select the content of matching braces)
> if i use (.*) it goes to the last brace in the end of file.
> Kindly suggest me an idea
http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2.120/lib/Regexp/Common/balanced.pm
Or
http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/lib/Text/Balanced.pm
which is in later Perl cores.
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