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cjakeman at bigfoot.com... 
>cLIeNUX user wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm sure that the FORTH guys have given some thought to building a
>> >regular-expression engine in FORTH words, but the only thing I can find
>> >is this 1988 BNF parser:
>> >
>> >       http://www.zetetics.com/bj/papers/bnfparse.htm
>> >
>> 
>> There's a Forth REGEX package on taygeta somewhere with permutation and
>> combination regexes.
>
>Look for FoSM (which stands for Forth String Matcher). There's lots of
>documentation and it's ANS.
>
>One of the elegant things about it is that it does not include a pattern
>interpreter. Instead each pattern is a Forth word, compiled on the fly
>and then executed.

Yeah, thassit. 

Rick

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