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| From | Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... |
| Date | 2013-03-11 21:03 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <aq6rkjFf1tsU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 10.03.2013 23:54, Roedy Green wrote: > Examples where regexes run out of steam: I never said you can do anything with regexps. You said they are "quite limited" to which I responded "I beg to differ: it's amazing what you can do with them." I think you are talking completely past me. > parsing Java, HTML, BAT language ... to do syntax colouring. For that you need a context free parser anyway and would not create a FSM by hand. > screen scraping, where what you want can appear in arbiter orders, be > missing, or enclosed in a variety of delimiters. Still, I haven't seen a single reason to create a FSM by hand. > creating code to simulate the output of forms. You have to do it in > stages. You pick out a string then you pick out strings of that Regexps are for _parsing_ and not for _generating_. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
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regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru - 2013-03-10 02:27 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-09 21:33 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-09 21:00 -0600
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2013-03-09 23:33 -0600
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-10 10:27 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-10 12:55 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 07:57 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-10 22:39 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 15:54 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:03 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 17:00 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 18:31 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 18:40 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 21:39 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-11 23:06 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 20:56 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 22:06 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-12 09:30 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 16:24 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:08 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 16:59 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 22:24 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:00 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-13 08:07 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-10 11:16 -0700
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