Re: conditional replace

[David Manura <dm.lua@...>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> I have a solution for this in perl, which is like a sledgehammer because 
> extracting text from balanced delimiters is difficult with a regex. I 
> was attracted to lua because its regex engine has the %b construct, 
> which seems to do just what I need.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq6.html#Can-I-use-Perl-regular-expressions-to-match-balanced-text%3f-regex%2c-matching-balanced-test-regexp%2c-matching-balanced-test-regular-expression%2c-matching-balanced-test

I've heard the perl 5.10 regex engine improves recursive regex support 
a bit: http://www.regex-engineer.org/slides/perl510_regex.html