Hmmm...looks like the RegEx method isn't going to be the holy grail I had hoped!
Thanks very much for yout time, Maciek. Marty --- In [email protected], Maciek Sakrejda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, you've hit an ugly problem for regex, Marty. Check out > the section on "Difficulties and Impossibilities" from "Mastering > Regular Expressions" at > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/chapter/ch04.html > > "In fact, the problem is that you simply can't match arbitrarily nested > constructs with regular expressions. It just can't be done. > > You can construct a regular expression that matches nested constructs up > to a certain depth, but not to any arbitrary level of nesting. A regular > expression to allow just one level of nesting is the monstrosity > \([^()]*(\([^()]*\)[^()]*)*\)..., so the thought of having to worry > about further levels of nesting is frightening. Sometimes, you just have > to use other, non-regex methods." > > -- > Maciek Sakrejda > Truviso, Inc. > http://www.truviso.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: marty.pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Help with RegEx > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:22:08 -0000 > > Hi > > Can someone please give me a hand on a RegEx? (I can't work these > things out for the life of me). > > I'm basically trying to return nested groups inside delimeters. > > An example we're all famililar with is the simple package / class > structure in Flex: > > package foo { > class bar { > function stuff { > ... > } > } > } > Given the delimeters oof { and }, I want to be able to return: > function stuff { > ... > } > > As well as > > class bar { > function stuff { > ... > } > } > > etc., up the chain. > > I currently have the following regex working: > > {\d*?\D*?} > > Which works fine without nesting. As soon as you introduce nested > elements, it all gets a bit messy. > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > > Marty >
