RE: RE: Re: greedy and lazy

Ouch.

I've heard good things about Parse::RecDescent... perhaps writing a small grammar with it would be more fruitful than using regular expressions.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: greedy and lazy by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 25, 2000 at 08:49 UTC
Yes - this seems precisely like a job for Parse::RecDescent. If I knew more about your application, I'd do it. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
ouch is right by oconnelm (Initiate) on Jul 26, 2000 at 02:30 UTC
I'll take a look at the module. with my present approach, any given space can screw up one expression, which in turn messes up another and so on. not pleasant.	[reply]