in reply to Re: Re: Abusing Regular Expressions
in thread Abusing Regular Expressions

Reading your description, I tend to agree with you, but then I'm a known regex abuser anyway:)

If you posted a small example of the task you want to solve, it would be fun to compare solutions.

Minor nit: Shouldn't your first example be 

    /(foo)+ #<<?
     (bar)?
     (bif){3,5}
    /x;

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Abusing Regular Expressions
by samtregar (Abbot) on Sep 27, 2003 at 20:23 UTC
    If you posted a small example of the task you want to solve, it would be fun to compare solutions.

    Hmmm. XML Schema has a way of defying small meaninful examples. Very simple schemas can be easily processed with simple techniques. The kind of thing appropriate for a regex might take 20-30 lines of knotty XML to express.

    Minor nit

    Right you are. Fortunately my regex-generator doesn't make mistakes like that...

    -sam

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