From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T00:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Regexp

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:46:03 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> I ask, because Lua (which uses % where we use \
> for things like \w, \d etc) has %bxy which matches a balanced x y
> pair and its contents.  Eg %b() would match the whole of
> "(an (example))".   The delimiters being one character only couldn't
> make a difference here, or could it?

The %bxy feature seems nice, I had to look it up in Lua's manual:
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.3


Maybe I should add it to my regexp engine ?

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Simon Strandgaard


BTW: I have just released regepx-engine 0.6
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=regexp