Hi,
I found the Regex-Coach an invaluable piece of code (I'm using it almost every days), and wanted to thank you about that.
Looking at the CL-PPCRE dictionary[1], I saw that the (?{code}) and (??{code}) syntaxic forms were (obviously) not handled, but what about having the php variants (?R), (?1), (?2),... which don't imply any code pollution at the pattern level? BTW, this is really soon to come in perl5's next version[2]. In the same mood, it would be really nice to handle named capture with the help of the (?P<name>), (?P=name), and the related (?P>name) from python/php.
Regards, Dom
[1] http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#dict [2] http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl5-porters/3291152
Hi!
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:11:01 +0100, "Dominique Faure" dominique.faure@gmail.com wrote:
I found the Regex-Coach an invaluable piece of code (I'm using it almost every days), and wanted to thank you about that.
You're welcome... :)
Looking at the CL-PPCRE dictionary[1], I saw that the (?{code}) and (??{code}) syntaxic forms were (obviously) not handled, but what about having the php variants (?R), (?1), (?2),... which don't imply any code pollution at the pattern level?
Never heard of them - do you have a link which explains them? (I saw the ASPN link you provided, but the poster seems to assume that one already knows them.)
In the same mood, it would be really nice to handle named capture with the help of the (?P<name>), (?P=name), and the related (?P>name) from python/php.
Have to check them out and see if I think it'd make sense to add them to CL-PPCRE.
But don't hold your breath - I'm pretty busy with other things at the moment.
Cheers, Edi.
On 11/9/06, Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:11:01 +0100, "Dominique Faure" dominique.faure@gmail.com wrote:
I found the Regex-Coach an invaluable piece of code (I'm using it almost every days), and wanted to thank you about that.
You're welcome... :)
Looking at the CL-PPCRE dictionary[1], I saw that the (?{code}) and (??{code}) syntaxic forms were (obviously) not handled, but what about having the php variants (?R), (?1), (?2),... which don't imply any code pollution at the pattern level?
Never heard of them - do you have a link which explains them? (I saw the ASPN link you provided, but the poster seems to assume that one already knows them.)
In the same mood, it would be really nice to handle named capture with the help of the (?P<name>), (?P=name), and the related (?P>name) from python/php.
Have to check them out and see if I think it'd make sense to add them to CL-PPCRE.
All this stuff is initially PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/) specific features. The related man page has some nice explanation of them. But as both they are already used in popular scripting languages and some of them are slowly leaking to Perl itself...
Here's a nice sample about this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php#62221
But don't hold your breath - I'm pretty busy with other things at the moment.
All these are only enhancement suggestions that could be applied to your excellent tool. I can live without them, it's only very uncomfortable :)
Regards, Dom
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