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Re: Structural regular expressions


From: Wojciech Meyer
Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:58:04 +0100
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> That's the real point, I believe: the paper touts the use of regexps
>> to divide text into chunks that match - chunks that are not
>> necessarily lines, in order to then act on those chunks in some way.
>
> Not a good base, I think -- regexps are not really powerful enough to do
> the job well.

Yes regexp are quite limited.
Maybe a simple PEG parser based on packrat, with a syntax sugar for
defining one line set of rules?

>
> -Miles

Wojciech



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