Re: [bugs?] perldoc perlre, \G and pos() (Who cares?)

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Re^2: [bugs?] \G and pos() (Motivation) by LanX (Saint) on Sep 30, 2009 at 17:44 UTC
nobody ever needs this feature! I do! I wrote a (heuristic-driven) Perlish syntax parser and transformer in Emacs Lisp, and though Perl as a language is incomparably friendlier than Lisps, I would not be even able of thinking about rewriting this tool in Perl: --- Ilya Zakharevich, published on Perl.com 09.2000 also worth a look: Text Processing: Elisp vs Perl For all these features you need a reliable possibility to search backwards from the last match position, that's what this thread is about. Otherwise feel free to show me alternatives... Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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Re^2: [bugs?] \G and pos() (Motivation)
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 30, 2009 at 17:44 UTC

nobody ever needs this feature!

I do!

I wrote a (heuristic-driven) Perlish syntax parser and transformer in Emacs Lisp, and though Perl as a language is incomparably friendlier than Lisps, I would not be even able of thinking about rewriting this tool in Perl:
--- Ilya Zakharevich, published on Perl.com 09.2000

also worth a look: Text Processing: Elisp vs Perl

For all these features you need a reliable possibility to search backwards from the last match position, that's what this thread is about.

Otherwise feel free to show me alternatives...

Cheers Rolf

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