Matching balanced parenthesis in Perl regex

Question

I have an expression which I need to split and store in an array:

aaa=\"bbb{ccc}ffffd\" { aa=\"bb,cc\" { a=\"b\", c=\"d\" } }, aaa=\"bbb{}\" { aa=\"b}b\" }, aa         


        

Answer 1

Use the perl module "Regexp::Common". It has a nice balanced parenthesis Regex that works well.

# ASN.1
use Regexp::Common;
$bp = $RE{balanced}{-parens=>'{}'};
@genes = $l =~ /($bp)/g;