Posted by Jeffrey Sambells on 10/21/66 11:33

I came across this method of matching brackets with regex in .NET

http://puzzleware.net/blogs/archive/2005/08/13/22.aspx

but I am wondering if it is possible to do the same in PHP?

I've tried it a bit but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I'm
just wondering if I am doing something wrong or if it is just not
possible.

Thanks.

here is the code I was playing with:

<?php

$pattern = <<<PATTERN
\{
(?>
[^{}]+
|
\{ (?P<DEPTH>)
|
\} (?P<-DEPTH>)
)*
(?(DEPTH)(?!))

\}
PATTERN;

$subject = <<<SUBJECT
test {
test2 {
test3
}
}

test4
{

}
SUBJECT;


preg_match_all("/$pattern/ix",$subject,$matches);

header("content-type: text/plain; ");

var_dump($matches);

?>


- Jeff



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