From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-12T17:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: subbing English vars into code text (was: RE: Another suggestion forFreeRIDE)

In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201120110100.1257-100000@candle.superlink.net>,
David Alan Black  <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
>Hi --
>
>On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Jack Dempsey wrote:
>
>> ok, i can see the problem, what do you suggest for the solution? a check to
>> see if its not enclosed in []'s? are there other situations?
>
>My example included one case where it's not included in [], as well as
>one where it is:
>
>>   re = /[abc$!]$/
>                 ^^
>Also strings can of course contain arbitrary characters....
>
>I don't think you can do this with just a bulk replacement.

Nope.  But FreeRIDE will have to have some kind of tokenizer/parser in 
order to do keyword completion for example.

Phil