Regex - Match a string outside of the parentheses
How do I match any
e which's not inside of the parentheses?
I have created a pattern to do it, but it doesn't seem to work properly. It should store (s and remove )s, so that an e that is outside of the parentheses is matched e.g. ()()()e, but e inside of the parentheses isn't e.g. (e).
https://regex101.com/r/3m6ZUc/1
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Even though quite a similar pattern finds them properly.
https://regex101.com/r/BE4OLO/1
Oh, was writing the answer and discord suddenly crashed.
Yes, parentheses can be nested.
E.g.
In this case just
es ouside of the parentheses should be matched
so (e) is inside of them, ()e - ouside
And the format can be wrong too.
in this case there're not enough parantheses, no e should be matched
In this case I don't really care whether e is matched or not. E is probably outside of the parantheses, but the format is wrong and I'm gonna throw an error for this input. So it doesn't matter whether e is matched here
Yes, the purpose of the pattern is just to match the e outside of the brackets. It shouldn't include looking for errors
so how would your recommend to implement it?
I see, I guess I got a bit too excited about using regex in all the cases
I'll use this variant then
Thank you 🙂