Question

Is there a function or regex or anything to group items by a { and } tag? so it should group items by the opening tag { and the closing tag }. but be careful, there are also groups inside parent groups like so:

group {
   text1
   group2 { 
      text2
   }
}

so basically think of it like php, you make an opening tag, you need to close it with a closing tag, curly braces in php’s case.

I just need it to like substr() each group into an associative array somehow, except I cant figure it out with the whole, “group inside a parent group”.

Edit:
I’m trying to make my own syntax highlighter for learning purposes, and I thought grouping would be best. Yes I know there is a php function for highlighting but… this is for educational purposes.

Answer 1

You could iterate through each occurrence and create a stack of scopes, pushing a new scope onto the stack with each { and popping a scope with each }.