As the title reads, we can easily match nested parentheses in regex with e.g.
(\(((?:[^()]+|(?1))+))
which will match balanced parentheses.
How can we use a named subgroup instead, as e.g. in
(?P<key>\(((?:[^()]+|(?\g<key>))+))
I'm not looking for a parser solution or anything but really for the pattern above in Python
(regex
module) or PCRE
.
According to the PyPi
regex
documentation, the named backreference syntax isSee a Python demo: