Hi,


Not being very versatile in regular expressions I wonder if is possible
to express this:


Find the number of ),( triplets in a string, provided they are not in a
substring that is enclosed in single quotes, ignoring the pair ' in all
cases.


in a regular expression?

Hugo


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On 2008-07-15T15:44:02-0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Find the number of ),( triplets in a string, provided they are not in a
> substring that is enclosed in single quotes, ignoring the pair ' in all
> cases.
>
> in a regular expression?

Sounds like home work.

You cannot use regex for counting, so you have add something else
(either code, or another program if you use something like egrep).


/Allan


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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:22:53AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:

...
> Besides, Andrew's eyes need time to heal

no hope of that. I just need to finally bite the bullet and grok some
more regex. The only issue with Florian's now snipped line is that its
so daunting I don't know where to start. And I can't pass up the
opportunity to get modded funny! oh.. wait.

A