Re: shorter struct regex?

["James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>]

> 	,x/{\n([^}]+\n)+	}/x/, +[^\n]/x/ +/c/\n		/
> 
> 	Is there way I could of done this with less work?
> 
> > In sam, highlight the suspect arrays and then ,s/, */,\n	/g
> would work.  This is a case where I think using the mouse
> makes more sense than typing all the gook.  

Ah, but the point was to do this without the mouse. =) Not because I'm
perverse, but because I had about 30 of these arrays in my program. Plus
I'm writing it in noweb, so I had a mix of latex documentation mixed in
with the code (which about doubles the size of the file).

> But if you want
> to type the gook, can't you just say
> 
> 	,x/{([^}]|\n)+}/,s/, */,\n	/g

The extra ',' in there before s/// would mess things up. But with a few
tweaks, like making sure it doesn't add a newline if one already exists:

	,x/{([^}]|\n)+}/s/, *[^\n]/,\n		/g

It works and would have saved 8 characters. Thank you!


Jim