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Re: scanf style parsing
by Greg Ewing other posts by this author
Sep 28 2001 1:31AM messages near this date
Re: scanf style parsing | Re: scanf style parsing
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
>  
>  I struggled with regex's for months.

Was it the concepts you found difficult, or the syntax?
The syntax conventionally used for REs is atrocious for
anything beyond the simplest cases, IMO.

It doesn't have to be that way. I used a different
approach in Plex, for example:

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

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