Re: Argh! Regular expressions in Lua

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Paul Hudson wrote:
> >  Well, (ab)* isn't so complex, both to implement (I think) or 
> > conceptually (that's not (?<=\w{5})...).
>
> Go on then :)
>
> (i.e. let's see an implementation and see how much bigger it gets. The
> difference quoted in the Lua docs between the Lua regexps and PCRE seems
> quite large, and there's presumably a reason for that)

I might, as the subject interest me, but it would be a waste of time if:
- Roberto already tried and concluded it is too costly. I doubt being 
able to do better...
- Patch won't be looked at.

Gavin Wraith wrote:
> In googling about I have come across pattern
> matching packages that claim to be "compact and fast", e.g.
> http://www.univ-rouen.fr/LIFAR/aia/ccp.html .
> Maybe these epithets are relative.

This one is "free for academic research only."...


Mmm, I just discovered that SciTE's simple engine doesn't handle such 
construct (ie. repetition on a group of chars) either. I overlooked that!
Well, perhaps I can try to improve that and see if it is even doable 
simply... If I fail, I suppose I should have just shut my mouth. ;-)

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