scanf style parsing

[Andrew Dalke]

Greg Ewing wrote:
>It doesn't have to be that way. I used a different
>approach in Plex, for example:
>
>http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/

Which I corrupted and use for Martel
  http://www.dalkescientific.com/Martel/

Without the Plex syntax requires horrendous patterns strings:
  http://www.dalkescientific.com/Martel/ebi-talk/img25.htm

 :)

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com