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Re: regexp character classes not supported?
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Klaus Schilling |
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Re: regexp character classes not supported? |
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:41:30 +0100 (CET) |
From: Ian Price <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: regexp character classes not supported?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:32:02 +0000
> Klaus Schilling <address@hidden> writes:
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> > does irregex support SNOBOL-style patterns?
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> I have not used SNOBOL, so I can't really say for sure if irregexes
> functionality subsumes it. The documentation itself does not refer to
> SNOBOL at all.
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Snobol's pattern are said to be equivalent to recursive descent parsers
with backtracking or to context free grammers.
Klaus Schilling