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On M= ar 4, 2024, at 10:43 AM, Rich Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 1= 2:05=E2=80=AFPM Will Senn <will.se= nn@gmail.com> wrote:
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ranges bounded by regexes... who'd of thunk it?

Go read about the Rob Pike's sam editor (such as http://doc.cat= -v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/) and prepare to have your mind blo= wn :)

Also read Rob=E2=80=99s Structured Regular Expre= ssions paper which has more details on using REs for describing the *structu= re* of a piece of text rather than its content: https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_la= bs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

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