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I'm having kind of a nightmare about this regEx I need to provide. The idea is basically to find all ',' characters between parenthesis within a certain string... but if inside that parenthesis there's another parenthesis that contain ',' then don't include this.

Sample:

(hello, something, hi, (another, one), last)

So the idea would be to detect and match 5 groups

1. (hello,
2. something,
3. hi,
4. (another, one),
5. last)

I've been struggling but I can't break it up like this, instead I get 6 groups 

1. (hello,
2. something,
3. hi,
4. (another,  <-- not ok
5. one), <-- not ok
6. last)

Have been trying with some regEx but I can't detect the double ( ) pattern, the best I could achieved so far was

(?!\(.*)[,](?=.*\))

Thanks for the time and help

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    This can't be done with a regex. Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:01
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    Try ([A-Za-z]+|\([^()]+,[^()]+\)) Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:08
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    How deep can the inner parentheses be nested Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:18
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    @ran_0315 actually this detects the inner parenthesis with the comma, which I good I suppose with some extra coding. Will take it into account if this can't be solved with a single regEx. thanks for the tip Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:27
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    Try \([^()]*\),?|\S[^,]*,?. See live demo here regex101.com/r/6jg92v/1 Commented Oct 9, 2018 at 12:48
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