[BangPypers] Do you think a more declarative RE syntax would make the world a better place ?

[Vishal]

Here are a couple more regular expression analyzers:

http://xenon.stanford.edu/~xusch/regexp/analyzer.html

<http://xenon.stanford.edu/~xusch/regexp/analyzer.html>a tool you can
download to your pc:
http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > # a(b|c)d+e*
>> >
>> > re1 = """
>> >
>> > - literal: 'a'
>> > - one_of: 'b,c'
>> > - one_or_more_of: 'd'
>> > - zero_or_more_of: 'e'
>> > """
>>
>> It *could be* useful to new comers, but not very much.
>> This will add to the cost of covering it to regex code and will cause
>> significant delay in the programs which are using regex. So in big
>> apps it may not be of use.
>> Have you seen re.VERBOSE flag in the re module? Thats perhaps the
>> middle path (tm). :)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Senthil
>>
>>
> Thanks for that info. Actually the re.X option fills in for a lot of the
> complexity.
> I had looked into it before.
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Vishal
>



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