From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamllex, regular expression syntax
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:04:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522230424.GA21973@opus.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030522205632.GA2130@kunz.ratzer>
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:56:33PM +0200, Stefan Heimann wrote:
> "[^"\\]*(\\.[^"\\]*)*"
>
> are not easy to read, but with the ocamllex syntax it is even more
> difficult:
>
> '"'[^'"''\\']*('\\'_[^'"''\\']*)*'"'
But don't you find:
'"' [^ '"' '\\' ]* ( '\\' _ [^ '"' '\\']* )*
easier to read. I certainly do.
Perl even has a mode where whitespace can be inserted into regexps to
make them more readable.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-22 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-22 20:56 Stefan Heimann
2003-05-22 23:04 ` David Brown [this message]
2003-05-23 8:36 ` Stefan Heimann
2003-05-23 6:31 ` Pierre Weis
2003-05-23 8:27 ` Stefan Heimann
2003-05-23 8:53 ` Luc Maranget
2003-06-02 23:42 ` John Max Skaller
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