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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Matching parentheses
Message-ID: <5209:Nov2909:58:4190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 09:58:41 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.150131.28981@ugle.unit.no> <16600@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <16600@csli.Stanford.EDU> cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty) writes:
> In article <1990Nov28.150131.28981@ugle.unit.no> harald.alvestrand@elab-runit.sintef.no writes:
    [ how to detect balanced parentheses? ]
  [ 10-line Perl program ]

#!/bin/sh
sed ':1
s-()--g
t1
s-..*-un-
s-$-balanced-'

---Dan