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Re: Exposing regexp engine & compiled regexp's

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Nathan Torkington
Date:
January 6, 2001 13:19
Subject:
Re: Exposing regexp engine & compiled regexp's
Damian Conway writes:
> I once wrote a C++-based regex engine (much simpler than Perl's!)
> just like this.

I once brutalized Henry Spencer's engine into telling me when I was
on my way to a match.  This was for a UI: I wanted to be able to say
that the input should only match this RE, and if they typed something
that broke the match, I could beep and disallow the character.

I was just a greenhorn then, so it coredumped.  But it's another use
for access to internal engine states and failure reasons.

Nat
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