From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T06:58:54+09:00
Subject: Re: cursor-0.6

On 5/28/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
[snip] 
> I think you'd have to rewrite it from scratch in Ruby or do
> stuff in C.  Like I said, Regexp is too tied to String.  If it
> could handle String-like objects, you might be able to do it.
> Or if it would have a callback when it reached the end of the
> string (or the matched failed) that might help.  Unfortunately,
> there isn't enough control.
[snip]

I have made a regexp lib where you can supply your own
iterators if you have string like classes.

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1311/regexp-engine-0.12.zip

Maybe it has interest?

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Simon Strandgaard