Matching substrings with regexp
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I'm trying to identify the subexpressions of a formula such as (real cases much longer):
y = ((a + b) * (c / d) + ( e + f ))
The subexpressions are always separated by pairs of parenthesis as in the example above. It seems like I should be able to use a regular expression with a rule like (intuitively) match "an initial left parenthesis, any characters (but no parenthesis), and a terminating right parenthesis" to get:
(a + b) (c / d) (e + f)
Can anybody suggest a regular expression to do this? Or any way other than a regular expression?
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per isakson
on 11 Sep 2014
AFAIK: That is not possible with Matlab's regular expression. Recursion is needed. With Perl (and other languages it is possible). See http://perl.plover.com/yak/regex/samples/slide083.html
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