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Re: regexp for balanced square brackets
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David Kastrup |
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Re: regexp for balanced square brackets |
Date: |
20 Nov 2003 00:42:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Miguel Frasson <frasson@brutus.math.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> Does somebody knows how to make a regexp such that [..], [...[...]..],
> [...[.[..].]..] matches?
No. But some people know how to prove that a regexp won't cut it,
ever (some Perl extensions to regexps can do, IIRC).
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum