Re: Discovered pattern that ideally parses any quoting. Brackets highlighting in FSH.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> not only (z) can handle quoting, turns out regular pattern with while
> loop can do it too:

Yes, this is actually quite commonly done when writing ad-hoc parsers
in perl via variations on

while (s/^(the-leading-part)//g) {
  do something with $1;
}

Usually you need at least a counter to for example keep track of the
depth of parenthesis nesting, but maybe that part is being handled
outside the code snippet you demonstrate in this thread.