.NET Regex Split ; except within () [] {}s

[DorkeyDear]

I was wondering if anybody could help out. I'm creating my own for-fun programming language in C# using the .NET framework and am doing fairly well considering I'm pretty new at this, and was wondering if anybody knew how to how to split a string by the ; character, except when its within (), {}, or []s. So basically:

"monkey;_\n
apple = ${_\n
  food;_\n
  two;_\n
};_\n
apply;"
would become
"monkey;"
"_\napple = ${_\n
  food;_\n
  two;_\n
};"
"_\napply;"

ATM, I am just using this:
List<string> lines = new List<string>(new Regex(";").Split(code));
which splits by ";", anywhere though


I forgot to say that the {}, (), and []s can be nested...

[Brock]

You do that for FUN?  >_>

[bja888]

Post the input and the output plz. I'll give you the code that makes it work.

[DorkeyDear]

Input:

Code: [Select]

one;\n
two = ${\n
  three;\n
  four = {\n
    five;\n
    return six;\n
  };\n
  return seven;\n
};\n
eight;\n
nine = ${\n
  return ten;\n
};\n
eleven;output: (a string[] or List<string>)

Code: [Select]

one;

Code: [Select]

\n
two = ${\n
  three;\n
  four = {\n
    five;\n
    return six;\n
  };\n
  return seven;\n
};

Code: [Select]

\n
eight;

Code: [Select]

\n
nine = ${\n
  return ten;\n
};

Code: [Select]

\n
eleven;
the \n means line break here

and @Brock - Yes, among other things as well...

[bja888]

This is close, but not quite there.

Code: [Select]

\w+\s*(=[^}]+})?;


[bja888]

You would be better crawling it. Would you like pseudo code or real code for that?