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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 01:58:39 +1000
Subject: Re: Get named groups from a regular expression
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> Easy, just write a regular expression to parse regular expressions ;)

Hmm, is that even possible? AIUI you can't make a regex that correctly
parses nested tokens, and named groups can definitely be nested.

ChrisA