[erlang-questions] regexp sux!

[Christian S]

My ordered wishlist:
 1. Being able to extract submatches, like gregexp
 2. Matching over binaries without binary_to_list
 3. Being able to control greedy vs non-greedy matching
 4. A syntax transform that transforms regexps into a calls to
generated erlang functions
that implement the regexp. (Iff this make regexps faster :)

On 5/20/07, Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED> wrote:
> A few comments about that seeing it is my fault. :-) Anchoring, ^ and $,
> doesn't work when compiling the regexp with compile, but it should work
> when running it directly or with just parse. If it doesn't then it is  bug.
>
> I am working on some new regexp modules with both POSIX and PERL style
> regexps. There will probably be two modules as they don't just have
> different features but also different semantics, they will find
> different matches.
>
> What features are people mainly interested in? What should I focus on to
> start with?
>
> N.B. I am implementing it all in Erlang and not doing an interface to a
> "C" library like PCRE. I mean where's the fun in that?
>
> Robert
>
> Luke Gorrie wrote:
> > Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED> writes:
> >
> >> There is a new version of regexp in the pipe which:
> >
> > Today I'm in the market for a fast regexp matcher so please send me a
> > copy if you have it handy :-)
> >
> > I had a quick look at the one on trapexit but it crashed on the regexp
> > "^x" in build_nfa (a missing clause).
> >
> > BTW years ago I ported the OTP Erlang regexp matcher to Haskell and
> > John Hughes immediately found a bug with Quickcheck. Now that
> > Quickcheck exists for Erlang too the OTP folks might find it handy.
> >
> > Unfortunately this was on an infernal "Yahoo! Groups" forum and
> > it seems to have garbage collected the source code.
> >
> >
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