<code> I'm new to regexs and trying to get a list of all my C++ methods with balanced parenthesis as follows.
#find all c++ method prototypes with a '::' in the middle #upto and including the 1st closing parenthesis pattern_upto_1st_closed_parenth = re.compile('\w+::\w+\([^)]*\)') match_upto_1st_closed_parenth = re.findall(pattern_upto_1st_closed_parenth,txt) num_of_protos = len(match_upto_1st_closed_parenth) for i in range (0,num_of_protos-1): num_of_open_parenths = match_upto_1st_closed_parenth[i].count('(') #expand the pattern to get all of the prototype #ie upto the last closed parenthesis #saying something like pattern = re.compile(\ 'match_upto_1st_closed_parenth[i]+\ (([^)]*\)){num_of_open_parenths-1}'\ ) #==================================================================== #HELP!!!!!! I'm not sure how to incorporate: #1 'match_upto_1st_closed_parenth[i]' into the above extended pattern??? #2 the count 'num_of_open_parenths' instead of a literal ??? #==================================================================== #======================================= #if I could do it this sort of this would appear to offer the neatest solution pattern_upto_last_balanced_parenthesis = re.compile(' (\w+::\w+\([^)]*\))\ ([^)]*\)){\1.count('(')-1} ') #======================================= Should I be using regexs to do this? I've only put \ line extensions to separate the pattern components to assist readability Thx </code> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list