Re: Most succinct way to parse an HTTP header string

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great David Crayford once stated:
> Thanks kev, that's powerful stuff but what I'm looking for is a way to 
> coerce REXX programmers to swap to Lua. The REXX parse instruction is 
> less expressive but easier to grok 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/topic/com.ibm.zos.r11.ikjc300/ikj4c31062.htm#wq235. 
> Mainframers hate regular expressions which they consider to be some kind of 
> strange voodoo! My intention is to somehow interpret a REXX parse string 
> into a Lua equivilent.

  You could always try LPeg to compile REXX parse instructions.

  -spc (It looks straightforward, but then again, I'm not the one writing it 8-P