Howdy Bros. I am trying to use Text::Balanced to extract some balanced parens, brackts, etc. from a piece of text. In this example:
use Text::Balanced qw( extract_bracketed );
my $text = q/%%% rick ran errands . sem(1, [ word(1001,rick),
+ word(1002,ran), word(1003,errands), word(1004,'.') ],
+ [ pos(1001,'NN'), pos(1002,'VBD'), pos(1003,'NNS'),
+ pos(1004,'.') ] )./;
my ($extracted,$remainder) = extract_bracketed($text,'()');
$extracted comes out null, and $remainder contains the entire string. I thought I would get the contents of the outermost set of parens. What am I doing wrong?
TIA
Steve
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