On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Randall R Schulz <
rschulz@...> wrote:
> So you can save yourself time and energy by accepting the fundamental
> fact that REs cannot be parsed by REs.
At least, not all at once (c:
(Though PCRE-style RE's can get close, and given a bounded RE text
(i.e. extracted from everything else by some lexical state change or
similar), are a great help at splitting it up.)
When I built a PCRE parser, it was its own animal (hand-coded state
machine) and only dealt with RE's. To parse RE's out of something
else its much easier (read only possible) to do it as either a lexical
state subset or a separate parser, depending on things like how
complex this particular dialect of RE's is.
--
- J.Chris Findlay
(c:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail:
users-unsubscribe@...
For additional commands, e-mail:
users-help@...
