You can never go down the drain...

[John W. Baxter]

In article <wCgA5.844$d5.51939 at newsb.telia.net>, "Fredrik Lundh" 
<effbot at telia.com> wrote:

> But nobody can convince me that line noise is the best way to
> talk to a string matching engine -- as soon as you go beyond the
> regular basics (literals, dot, star, ranges), there are better ways
> to express yourself.

Well, the interface doesn't *have* to be line noise.  The alternative I 
had a tiny early part in will strike many here as "verbose:" that was 
intentional.  It is verbose:  it is also *highly* readable.  And it 
includes a decent solution to greedy vs non-greedy for those who care.

See
http://www.prefab.com/textmachine.html

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com