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Balanced Pairs in Nested Structures
You are given a complex string that consists of pairs of characters representing nested structures. For example, 'a(b(c))' represents a nesting of 'a', 'b', and 'c'. Your goal is to find the maximum depth of nesting in the string. A pair is defined as a character followed immediately by its matching closing character. Please write a program that takes such a string as input and outputs the maximum nesting depth.
Input Format:
A single line string composed of characters and pairs.
Output Format:
An integer representing the maximum depth of nesting.
Example:
Input:
a(b(c)d(e))
Output:
3
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