I honestly can't tell if you intentionally take stuff out of context so you can argue against it, or if your reading comprehension and logic skills are really j

I honestly can't tell if you intentionally take stuff out of context so you can argue against it, or if your reading comprehension and logic skills are really just that bad. I said, "instead of a regular language". You even quoted it. You don't even read the bits that you cut and paste to argue against. > expressions which can match them are not regular expressions And that's the damned point. Modern "regular expressions" aren't just "regular" any more. They've had back references and other extensions for a while now: https://www.regular-expressions.info/balancing.html https://www.regular-expressions.info/balancing.html https://www.regular-expressions.info/recurse.html https://www.regular-expressions.info/recurse.html https://www.regular-expressions.info/backref.html https://www.regular-expressions.info/backref.html Please - don't reply to me until you take the time to read and understand what I've said.