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Instead of working directly with text, work with a string of numeric unicode values. Negate the numbers for characters which are "off limits" because of preceding backslashes (we will take the absolute value and convert back to unicode for the final result). Also, find a limit value larger than that of the largest in-use character.
Then, iteratively: for each relevant comma, find the location of the closest surrounding braces. From these candidates, pick a pair of braces that's the shortest distance apart. Mark those braces and their contained relevant commas by replacing their character codes with an integer larger than any previously used (all of them in the set get marked
Finally, for each integer that we've used to mark delimiter locations, split out each of the marked options (each with a copy of that group's prefix and suffix). (Then when all that is done, take the absolute values convert back to unicode for the final result.)
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