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Regular Expression to match outer brackets
Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
i would like to extract a whole text which has matching numbers of closing brackets. Here is the example text.
Big String 1 {sub string 1 {{something} something {}} sub string 2{something} sub string {{something}{something else}}}
Is there an easy way for me to extract whole string which belongs to Big String 1 only? The results i would like to have is as such:
Big String 1 = "sub string 1 {{something} something {}} sub string 2{something} sub string {{something}{something else}}"
Thanks,