Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
I'd suggest also, that (?[) (with no specified brackets) have the default meaning of the "four standard brackets" : (?['('=')','{'='}','['=']',''='') Note also the subtle syntax change. We are either dealing with strings or with patterns. The consensus seems to be against patterns (I can

Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-06 Thread Buddha Buck
At 09:05 AM 9/6/00 -0400, David Corbin wrote: I'd suggest also, that (?[) (with no specified brackets) have the default meaning of the "four standard brackets" : (?['('=')','{'='}','['=']',''='') Note also the subtle syntax change. We are either dealing with strings or with patterns. The

XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread Nathan Wiger
It would be useful (and increasingly more common) to be able to match qr|\s*(\w+)([^]*)| to qr|\s*/\1\s*|, and handle the case where those can nest as well. Something like listmatch this with list /list not this but /list this. I suspect this is going to need a ?[ and ?]

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
Nathan Wiger wrote: It would be useful (and increasingly more common) to be able to match qr|\s*(\w+)([^]*)| to qr|\s*/\1\s*|, and handle the case where those can nest as well. Something like listmatch this with list /list not this but /list this. I suspect

Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-06 Thread Richard Proctor
On Tue 05 Sep, Nathan Wiger wrote: "normal" "reversed" -- --- 103301 99aa99 (( )) + + {{[!_ _!]}} {__A1( )A1__} That is, when a bracket is encountered, the "reverse" of

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Maraist
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Scott Duff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)) On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:40:37AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: What if we added special XML/HTML-parsing ? and ? operators?

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread Tom Christiansen
I am working on an RFC to allow boolean logic ( and || and !) to apply a number of patterns to the same substring to allow easier mining of information out of such constructs. What, you don't like: :-) $pattern = $conjunction eq "AND" ? join('' = map { "(?=.*$_)" }

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:40:37AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: What if we added special XML/HTML-parsing ? and ? operators? What if we just provided deep enough hooks into the RE engine that specialized parsing constructs like these could easily be added by

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
...My point is that I think we're approaching this the wrong way. We're trying to apply more and more parser power into what classically has been the lexer / tokenizer, namely our beloved regular-expression engine. I've been thinking the same thing. It seems to me that the attempts to

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:47:57PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Mark-Jason" == Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark-Jason I have some ideas about how to do this, and I will try to Mark-Jason write up an RFC this week. "You want Icon, you know where to find it..." :)

RFC 197 (v1) Numberic Value Ranges In Regular Expressions

2000-09-06 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Numberic Value Ranges In Regular Expressions =head1 VERSION Maintainer: David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5 september 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1 Number: 197 Status: