scanf style parsing

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> 
> I struggled with regex's for months.

Was it the concepts you found difficult, or the syntax?
The syntax conventionally used for REs is atrocious for
anything beyond the simplest cases, IMO.

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/

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