From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T20:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to convert a "normal" searchstring into regexp

2009/9/8 Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@googlemail.com>:
> that would probably be a good idea for a gem, although I'd
> do it with a real parser and tokenizer, as that offers much more
> safety than regexps and would also be backwards compatible with 1.8.*

As far as I can see you only need a scanner here - there is no CFG
that you would have to parse.  So why build something that complex
when there's a simpler (and probably also faster) solution?

Cheers

robert

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