Re^2: Regular Expression Test

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Re^3: Regular Expression Test by Laurent_R (Canon) on May 05, 2017 at 21:19 UTC
Then I am afraid it probably can't be done. All the regex examples you've shown are deterministic, so to speak, but how would you expand, for example, a quantifier such as * or +? `a+` could be anything like "a", "aa", "aaa", and so on. How would you express anchors? Zero-width assertions? Greedy and non-greedy quantifiers? And so on. Or you would have to explain how you want them to be translated. Or perhaps I missed what you're looking for?	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Regular Expression Test
by Laurent_R (Canon) on May 05, 2017 at 21:19 UTC

All the regex examples you've shown are deterministic, so to speak, but how would you expand, for example, a quantifier such as * or +? a+ could be anything like "a", "aa", "aaa", and so on. How would you express anchors? Zero-width assertions? Greedy and non-greedy quantifiers? And so on.

Or you would have to explain how you want them to be translated. Or perhaps I missed what you're looking for?

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