From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2007-08-09T15:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

2007/8/8, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
> Did you think about something like this (attached)?  This is just a
> raw hack to illustrate a possible way to do it.

Quote:

> mail_addr = TextualRegexp.new do
>   anchor :beginning
>
>   group :capturing do
>     at_least_once { any "a-z" }
>   end
>
>   literal "@"
>
>   repeat 1..4 do
>     at_least_once { any "a-z" }
>     literal "."
>   end
>
>   any %w{com edu org}
> end

I like this! A readable DSL for regular expressions.

Regards,
Pit