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# [How to Match Parentheses in JavaScript without Using Regex](https://freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-match-parentheses-in-javascript-without-using-regex?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

While writing my Lisp interpreter (for the Scheme dialect, to be precise), I decided to include support for square brackets. I did this because some of the Scheme books use them interchangeably with parentheses. But I didn't want to make the parser t...

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