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- Subject: Re: [mind game] Seeking for simple task impossible via regexps
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:14:37 +0200
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. It's supported by Perl
> (obviously), Python, PHP, Javascript, and thanks to libpcre pretty
> much any language that can load C libraries.
And it's larger than the whole of Lua ;)
Very powerful, very prone to write-once-and-never-read. I've felt
that the lesser power of Lua string patterns is a blessing, not a
curse. It forces people to use if statements ;)
