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Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions
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Rob Browning |
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Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions |
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:12:38 -0500 |
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address@hidden writes:
> Call me conservative, what not. I'd think You'd Write A Regexp Lib In C (TM).
>
> Apart from that, pregexp shows how a good Scheme interface to a
> regexp library might look like. I mean: having an S-expression
> syntax for regexps (and having the string variant just as a
> convenient shorthand notation) gives you the power to automated
> construction of regexps.
My initial impulse, if the upstream author is amenable, is to take the
existing source, and translate it to C (either by hand, or with some
automated help). Though without having read the source, I don't yet
know what the feasibility of that is.
> What I have missed most is a streams like interface: in comes a
> stream of chars, out a stream of matches. Has anyone seen something
> like this?
That would be nice.
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Rob Browning
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- Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions, (continued)
Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions, tomas, 2003/04/28
- Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions,
Rob Browning <=
- Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions, MJ Ray, 2003/04/28
- Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions], tomas, 2003/04/29
- Re: Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions], Thamer Al-Harbash, 2003/04/29
- Re: Low level things in C or Scheme, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2003/04/29
- Re: Low level things in C or Scheme, Ken Anderson, 2003/04/29
Re: Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions], Robert Uhl, 2003/04/30
Re: Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions], Thamer Al-Harbash, 2003/04/30
Re: Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions], tomas, 2003/04/30
Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions, Robert Uhl, 2003/04/28