From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-31T09:23:39+09:00
Subject: Regexp::English (was: Re: Howto Delete 3 Leftmost Characters)

Hi --

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jeff Pritchard wrote:

> Esteban Manchado =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vel=E1zquez?= wrote:
>> ...snip...
>> That is, "remove, from the beginning of the line, '#ip' followed by one
>> or
>> more space characters (be them spaces, tabs or whatever)".>
>> ...snip...
>>     Regards,
>
> Reading this explanation of the regexp that was provided reminded me
> again of a question that has been haunting me for awhile.  Has anyone
> written an "English language to Regexp" converter?

Yes, Florian Gross has, though I don't know how complete it is (this
was a couple of years ago and I haven't heard much about it since
then).  It's called Regexp::English.  I can't seem to find it
anywhere... paging Florian....


David

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