26.06.2019, 23:32, "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:
> Many people (and I think all programmers) can't "live" without
> the more conventional (and more powerful) regexps, but most
> can live without the (severely limited) Lua patterns !
they are indeed too limited, even for an occasional regexp user like me.
even very basic functionality like pattern alternatives is lacking.
> But you've got that shell scripting support in Bash which also
> supports the same regexps
since when does bash support regex ?
zsh has them though, they use PCRE or just plain posix re i guess.
> (so much that sed has been inlined into Bash or Busybox) !
not into bash but into BusyBox (should also be part of ToyBox
since sed is required by POSIX).
i wonder how Lua became Russ' "preferred hammer" for regex pattern
matching tasks ?? :-/
You missed my message where I said "I wasn't very good at this?" ha ha.
Joking aside, I like writing Lua so I usually attempt to solve a problem in Lua first. I keep threatening to learn LPEG but the tools in standard Lua suit my needs just fine. Some time ago there was a post here about a PCRE library wrapper, but again, I haven't needed it.
Russ
Philippe:
1.2 FREEMAIL_FROM
Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (verdyp[at]gmail.com)
what have you done to the list blockwarts again ? :D
