scanf style parsing

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Sep 27 11:32:15 EDT 2001


    Bruce> For Perl hackers it is easy to figure out regexp, but for us old
    Bruce> C/C++ types, it's *tough*

Indeed.  Regular expressions have been around for ages, but they always
seemed so clumsy to use from C.  I think their full integration into tools
like Emacs and Perl have made them much more widely available than they
otherwise would have been.

Skip




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