Regular Expression Multiple grouping

Dear all
I want to do a grouping of multiple criterias as expression .
Single grouping is possible , but when group within a group comes things doesnt work for me.
User would define the comibination
For example i have 4 criterias
C1
C2
C3
C4
Basic grouping works for example :
(C1&C2) | (C3&C4)
Complicated grouping i have no idea how to implement it.
(((C1&C2) | (C3&C4))&(C1&C2) )
I need validate if the expression is correct and need to pick up all the groups and do the AND or OR.
Any help woul dbe appriciated
Regards
pacs

You cannot use regular expressions for this since there can be nested parenthesis which is out of the scope of regex-es.
Continued here: [http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5418262]

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