On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, at 12:39, Rick McGuire wrote: > My incubator version has named captures, and also has a new feature > I've not seen other regex packages, reusable named patterns. For > example, one of the standard patterns is a URL: pattern that has named > elements like protocol, port, domain name, etc. Rather than having to > copy and paste one of these patterns into your own, you can refer to > them by name. I'm a bit stalled on the design of user pattern libraries > at the moment, but this is a very powerful concept.
That /does/ sound very useful. Apart from that, does your version support pre-compilation of regexes? Regex support I've used elsewhere has allowed that, so that eg a regex used in a loop can be compiled/prepared once then that internal form is used each time the programmer wants it executed. I suppose it depends on how the back-end regex support is written whether or not that produces any kind of advantage. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
