On 16 December 2017 at 17:28, Nicolas Cellier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Never try to read regexp, it's write only
>

its highly susceptible to Kernighan's Lever to shoot yourself in the foot...
   "You separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized regexp,
   and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs.
   However, the program fails to run and you can't correct it since
   you don't understand what the hell it is you've written."
http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html

cheers -ben



>
> 2017-12-16 9:09 GMT+01:00 Stephane Ducasse <[email protected]>:
>
>> ouaaahhhhhh ;)
>> My problem was that I had complex lines as elements. and I will not be
>> able to remember and express anything with regex
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Martin Dias <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > If your input was a string instead of a list of lines, you had:
>> >
>> > '[^4]*4|.+' asRegex matchesIn: '1234123123456'
>> >>>>
>> >  "an OrderedCollection('1234' '1231234' '56')"
>> >
>> > Martín
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Stephane Ducasse <
>> [email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks sean.
>> >> I will build it because for example I had list of lines and I needed
>> >> to split the input depending
>> >> on patterns inside the lines.... and sadly this was not for an advent
>> of
>> >> code.
>> >>
>> >> Rmoders suggested
>> >> aggregateRuns:
>> >> splitOn:
>> >> but this is not the same.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Stef
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <
>> [email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Stephane Ducasse-3 wrote
>> >> >> #(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 ) consumeUntil: [:each | each = 4)
>> >> >>>>> {#(1 2 3 4) . #( 1 2 3 5 6 )}
>> >> >
>> >> > The shortest kernel thing I could come up with took two steps: `{
>> #(1 2
>> >> > 3 4
>> >> > 1 2 3 5 6 ) copyUpThrough: 4.
>> >> > #(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 ) copyAfter: 4 }`. The splitting messages seem to
>> >> > all
>> >> > eat the separator.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > -----
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Sean
>> >> > --
>> >> > Sent from:
>> >> > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>

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