From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-04-17T23:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow ruby regexes

On 16.04.2007 20:54, MenTaLguY wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:55:05 +0900, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> But since I'm interested in *using* them vs. writing RX engines your
>> solution was not exactly what I expected. :-)
> 
> I'll admit to being a little confused -- you're interested in using a RX engine rather than implementing one, but you'd rather see a description and/or hand-worked example of an implementation technique rather than a link to a finished implementation using the same techniques under discussion?

LOL - now I'm confused, too. :-)  I was looking for something like (made 
up fake): "To prioritize branches of an alternative in sed you do sed -e 
's/foo(!2bar|!1baz)/yummy\1/g'."  Of course this does not work with sed 
(at least no implementation of sed that I know).  Are there other tools 
that allow to embed something into a RX that will do this prioritization?

Kind regards

	robert