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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> the problem is to write a script that can check a dir of text files
> (and all subdirs) and reports if a file has any mismatched matching
> brackets.

I wonder will it be possible to code the whole thing as a single
regular expression... I'm pretty sure it could be done as a sed or awk
script, but I'm insufficiently expert in either to do the job.

ChrisA