Re: ireegular expressions, syntax complexity

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From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>At most one "." in front of at most one "E":  [0-9]*[.]?[0-9]*E?[0-9]*
>At least one of "." or "E":                   .*[.E].*
>At least one digit in front of and after "E": .*[0-9].*E[0-9]+

There's still a bug here, because that makes "E" non-optional.  Let's
make it optional:

At least one digit, when using E one before and one after: .*[0-9].*(E[0-9]+)?

In total:

[0-9]*[.]?[0-9]*E?[0-9]*&.*[.E].*&.*[0-9].*(E[0-9]+)?

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
[This doesn't seem all that much simpler than the usual approach with
alternation, give or take bugs:
  ([0-9]+\.[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)(E[0-9]+)?|[0-9]+E[0-9]+
-John]

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