To create a regular expression that matches nested parentheses or brackets in Golang, you can use recursion. Here is an example of how you can achieve this:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"regexp"
)
func checkNestedParentheses(input string) bool {
re := regexp.MustCompile(`(\((?:[^()]|(?R))*\))|\[(?:[^\[\]]|(?R))*\]`)
return re.MatchString(input)
}
func main() {
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses("()")) // true
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses("((()(()))())")) // true
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses("[(a[b](c))d]")) // true
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses("[(a[b](c))]")) // false, unbalanced closing bracket
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses("(a(b]c)")) // false, mismatched bracket types
fmt.Println(checkNestedParentheses(")")) // false, unbalanced closing parenthesis
}
In the regular expression pattern (\((?:[^()]|(?R))*\))|\[(?:[^\[\]]|(?R))*\]
, we define two alternatives separated by the |
symbol:
(\((?:[^()]|(?R))*\))
matches nested parentheses. It uses a non-capturing group (?:[^()]|(?R))*
to match any character that is not a parenthesis or recursively matches nested parentheses using (?R)
.\[(?:[^\[\]]|(?R))*\]
matches nested brackets. It uses a similar approach to match any character that is not a bracket or recursively matches nested brackets using (?R)
.Using this regular expression, the checkNestedParentheses
function returns true if the input string contains properly nested parentheses or brackets, and false otherwise.