Making regex suck less

[Carl Banks]

Gerhard H?ring wrote:
>> which means the real time is not spent in the compile() function, but
>> in the match or find function. So basically, couldn't one come up with
>> a *human readable* syntax for re, and compile that instead?
> 
> That's equally powerful? Most probably not.

Why not?  It won't be as fast, but it should be able to do anything a
regexp can do, and would be much more versatile.


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