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I’m trying to find a regex to split a call to a method
boo(a,b), c
so it would return
boo(a,b)
and
c
after splitting by it.
Is it possible doing it with regex?
Thanks.
Regular languages cannot express recursion. At the point where you realise that the solution would involve recursion, it is not possible to express this in a “pure” regex engine (in practice, most regex engines have some sort of extension to allow limited violation of this rule).
Since you’re writing in a Java context – why not use the nice programming language to perform this fairly simple manipulation of a string, rather than trying to shoehorn a regex into the solution? 🙂