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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:18:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: Discovered pattern that ideally parses any quoting. Brackets
 highlighting in FSH.
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> 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.