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On 30Jan2016 19:53, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 9:18:31 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 30Jan2016 19:22, rusi wrote:
>> >Have you ever seen a program that uses 512 re's?
>> >I havent :-)
>>
>> I have. I've got one right here. It happens to be in perl, but it has been in
>> need of a recode in Python for a long time. It has about 3000 regexps.
>>
>> Of course they will be explicitly compiled in the recode.
>
>I would guess it needs more recoding than explicit compilation!
>Maybe something like http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
>Unfortunately no python binding so far :-(

Interesting. Thanks,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>