Mastering Regular Expressions 2nd Ed.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Kristian Ovaska wrote:

> I'm sure there are alternative regular languages that are more
> readable, altough I've never come across one. The problem of such
> languages is, I guess, that since they are more verbose than this very
> compact CS notation, you can't just wrap them in a string, but would
> need to expand the underlying language

or you could just use the language as is, instead of forcing people
to write stuff in a really ugly sublanguage.

for some examples, see ping's rxb:

    http://web.lfw.org/python/

and greg ewing's plex:

    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/

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