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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Discovered pattern that ideally parses any quoting. Brackets highlighting in FSH.
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:18:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bP_5ahuJZgswkmeyiF1Ozua0uznvZq0anzAVpA5c1kbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVAbwaZr6Pr8weACs7W7E1A6GF5y7QpwRanssYFdGnzSww@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> not only (z) can handle quoting, turns out regular pattern with while
> loop can do it too:

Yes, this is actually quite commonly done when writing ad-hoc parsers
in perl via variations on

while (s/^(the-leading-part)//g) {
  do something with $1;
}

Usually you need at least a counter to for example keep track of the
depth of parenthesis nesting, but maybe that part is being handled
outside the code snippet you demonstrate in this thread.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-01 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-30  7:09 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2018-07-31  4:16 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2018-07-31  5:13   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2018-08-01 18:18 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2018-08-02  7:32   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski

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