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From:	"James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
To:	"sam Fans" <sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Subject: shorter struct regex?
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Date:	Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:24:24 -0500

I'm starting to develop some mild RSI problems, and am trying to move away
from the mouse. This leads me to look at editors like vi or sam instead
of wily. In wily I end up using a pipe to sam half the time anyway, so
I'm working through using structured regular expressions while editing
my code in sam.

I just worked through a problem, and am wondering if there was a shorter
way to solve it.  I had a bunch of arrays defined in a java file:

...
public Hashtable return()
throws MissingRequiredValueException
{
	String[] req =
	{
		"order-id", "amount"
	};

	String[] opt =
	{
		"card-number", "card-exp", "card-name", "card-address", "card-city",
		"card-zip"
	};
	return processRequest("return", req, opt);
}
...

I wanted to expand the elements of the arrays to one per line. This is
what I used:

,x/{\n([^}]+\n)+	}/x/, +[^\n]/x/ +/c/\n		/

Is there way I could of done this with less work?


Jim

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