From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2003-09-29T13:49:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Porting Suggestions: Lucene to Ruby; Perl Text::Balanced

On Sep 25, 2003, at 4:26 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> I am ... fitfully working on Text::Balanced. It's difficult because  
> it's
> *very* idiomatic Perl and depends on a feature (pos and \G) that there  
> are
> ways to emulate in Ruby, but nothing that quite works the same way.

I have a port of Text::Balanced that I made for an experimental port of  
Parse:RecDescent if you (or anyone else) are interested:

    
http://dev.faeriemud.org/~deveiant/RecDescentParser/lib/ 
DelimScanner.rb?dl=1

It's implemented as a subclass of Minero Aoki's excellent 'strscan'  
module.

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Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Believer, Architect
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>