I'm trying to match the contents that belong between a certain (
and its matching )
as found by vim when using the motion %
.
More specifically, I'm looking for a regex that looks like this hypothetical /someKeyword ({pair}(.*)){pair}/
, if there were such modifiers as {pair}
that when applied to two exactly two characters in a regex, makes the second one only match if it's the matching bracket to the first one (%
-wise).
The pattern I'm looking for should match the inner contents of the first bracket following someKeyword
(n.b. the code that it should work on is always correctly bracketed), as in the examples:
For someKeyword ("aaa")
the submatch will match "aaa"
.
Likewise someKeyword ("aaa)")
will match "aaa)"
and someKeyword(("double-nested stuff"))
will match ("double-nested stuff")
But also in cases like:
(
someKeyword("xyz"))
where it should match "xyz"
.
Is there any way to make use of vim's matching bracket functionality in regexes? And if not, what other solution might work to accomplish this?
Edit 1: the matched contents may span several lines.
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