> "Sam and Acme use a simple, pure form of regular expressions. If they > had the counting operations, this would be a trivial task, but to add > them would open the door to the enormous, ill-conceived complexity of > (no longer) regular expressions as the open source community thinks of > them." > > So, if you want counting, you can always write a patch, who knows, it > might even be accepted. > > But I think that anyone not under the influence of psychedelic > substances that has suffered PCR, will agree we don't want to move in > that direction, and even if small, counting is a step in that > direction. > > I personally rarely have use for it, and when I do, it is trivial to > write a script to generate the desired regexp, and I'm eternally > grateful for being free from Perl-induced psychosis. > > uriel
Isn't it just easier to answer the questions? ... this is just like bla... bla... bla... sorry, but being such doesn't shed any light on the subject... Ruda
