John McKown wrote: >One that always makes me sweat is matching the contents inside ' marks, where >a single ' is encoded as two ' marks next to each other within the outer ' >marks. The same matching contents within parentheses where subparameters >within parentheses are permitted. E.g. 'This isn''t quite right!' or >(a,b,(c,d),e).
Hmmm, now I got a memory check from your nasty remark! Bang! Reboot! ;-D Curiousity question: years ago I asked that question to a professor, but got no answer. Question: Can you replace those two quotes (outer and inner) with something not related to each other and then retry the parse? Something like this: 'This isn~}t quite right!' just temporarily change for parse. Alternatively there are two types of quotes: ' (single character with single mark) " (single character with double marks) Can you alternate between them and do your reg parse? Like this: "This isn''t quite right!" (Note: One character left of The. Two characters between N an T. One character next to exclamation character.) Just curious if you don't mind please. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
