On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:43:45PM -0800, Brian Deacon wrote: > I'm not often in regex world, so somebody probably phrased a better > version of this observation already.... but I joked with my friend that > regex is an example of the signal to noise ratio being too -high-. > > And then that joke made me think that there ought to be a higher-level > language that compiles to regex. And it actually seemed like a sane > enough idea that I thought maybe somebody had already invented such a > thing. > > Compile is probably too strong a word. Code generator is probably > closer. > > Anybody know of anything like that? >
No, and I doubt if it's practical ... but I can _strongly_ recommend the O'Reilly book, "Mastering Regular Expressions" (the owl book). Changed my life ;-) -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
