Hi
Thanks for your reply.
I may have to look at a non-regex method.
Cheers
Marty
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jer_ela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> While there are ways to work around nesting to a known depth, it gets
> ugly quickly, and nesting to an arbitrary depth is beyond the ability
> of regexes to match directly.
>
> What you can do is write a parser that uses regular expression and
> additional code to find the substring you are searching for.
>
> search for "function"
> set nestingLevel to 0
> in a loop search for /[{}]/ opening a closing delimiter
> if you find a { increment nestingLevel
> if you find a } decrement it
> when nesting level hits 0 again you are done
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "marty.pitt" <marty.pitt@> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
