On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:26:00PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > 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 ;-)
Ahh... and I get O'Reilly freebies. (I'm the O'Reilly guy for the BEA UG). Thanks for the tip. B -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
