From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T01:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression question

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

D> I've always thought they were so elegant and powerful, and it took me
D> a while to notice that not everyone agreed :-)

 They are powerful when they are well designed.

 When you write a regexp, you must think to all cases of failures otherwise
 you can have big surprises.

 Do you remember the well-known example NFA-vs-DFA with the P hack to solve
 it ?


Guy Decoux