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<p> Maybe you could use [cpan://Text::Balanced] instead? (in particular [http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Text-Balanced-2.02/lib/Text/Balanced.pm#extract_bracketed|extract_bracketed()]) </p>
<p> [cpan://Module::CoreList] says it's a core module since: </p>
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$ corelist Text::Balanced
Text::Balanced was first released with perl 5.007003
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<p> (IOW, for 5.6 you'd have an additional dependency...) </p>
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