Re: regexp for balanced square brackets

[bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Miguel Frasson <frasson@brutus.math.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
>
>> Does somebody knows how to make a regexp such that [..], [...[...]..],
>> [...[.[..].]..] matches?
>
> No. But some people know how to prove that a regexp won't cut it, ever
> (some Perl extensions to regexps can do, IIRC).

If you want to do this in Emacs, maybe you should just write the
structure you want as a Lisp expression, and just have Elisp parse
it. (It's kind of hard to tell without knowing what you are trying to
do, however.)

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