matching and extracting...

[Andrew Dalke]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> I won't try to write the whole thing here, but basically, you're doing 
> pattern matching; use one of the pattern matching engines (there's lots 
> of them). Transform your pattern definition into an appropriate 
> definition for that library.
 >
 > For instance with re:

Oooohhh.  Much more elegant than my approach.  :)

					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com