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Sunday December 14, 2003

07:27 PM

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Build Regexps Through Method Calls (Score:1)

by chromatic (983)

Regexp::English [cpan.org] does this. It's pretty painful for the short stuff, though I like bound variables quite a bit.
star (Score:2, Insightful)

by bart (450)

'*' means match zero or more times
No, that's regexes. Surely you mean "zero or more characters"?
- Re:star (Score:2)
  
  by 2shortplanks (968)
  
  Indeed, I did. Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.
Septate? (Score:1)

by eric.t.f.bat (4721)

Incidentally, is septate a technical term, or a typo for separate?

(I don't MEAN to find all these typos, really I don't! It's my upbringing! Society is to blame!)
- Re:Septate? (Score:2)
  
  by 2shortplanks (968)
  
  Septate \Sep"tate\, a. [L. septum, saeptum, partition.] Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.
  Yes, see that's what I meant.
  Oh who am I trying to kid. It was a typo in the spellchecker. D'oh.
  - Re:Septate? (Score:1)
    
    by eric.t.f.bat (4721)
    
    So obviously Perl has many septate languages, of which only two are listed above. It's not unreasonable to assume the regexps are the other one.