From: Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>
Date: 2010-08-13T20:16:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp & named capture groups

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On 13 Aug 2010, at 11:15, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>=20
>=20
> Regular expression engines generally do only return one match per =
group - regardless of naming or not naming groups.  I'm not up to date =
with current Perl's regular expressions which are the only ones I can =
imagine to be crazy enough to provide such a feature. :-) =20

.Net definitely offers it, which is ironic as none of the .Net devs I =
used to work with ever used regex.=20

Scan is a really poor alternative (for this kind of task), I think. =
Instead of just writing one regex which expresses what I want to do much =
better, I end up having to write a lot of extra code to get the same =
effect. Scan's cool for more simple things.

Regards
Iain


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