regular expression problem

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 05:16:11PM +0000, MRAB wrote:

> > Logically it should not because
> > 
> > 	>s'::15>>$
> > 
> > does not match
> > 
> > 	::\d*>>$
> > 
> > but I am not sure how to tell it that :-)
> > 
> For something like that, I'd use parsing by recursive descent.
> 
> It might be worth looking at pyparsing.

I feared as much. However, by slightly changing the boundary
conditions I was able to solve the problem :-)

Now I am only left with the task to search-replace a bunch of
LaTeX templates during the next database upgrade ...

Karsten
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