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Re: regexp for balanced square brackets
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Björn Lindström |
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Re: regexp for balanced square brackets |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:39:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Miguel Frasson <frasson@brutus.math.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
>
>> Does somebody knows how to make a regexp such that [..], [...[...]..],
>> [...[.[..].]..] matches?
>
> No. But some people know how to prove that a regexp won't cut it, ever
> (some Perl extensions to regexps can do, IIRC).
If you want to do this in Emacs, maybe you should just write the
structure you want as a Lisp expression, and just have Elisp parse
it. (It's kind of hard to tell without knowing what you are trying to
do, however.)
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