On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:22 PM Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, at 12:39, Rick McGuire wrote: > > My incubator version has named captures, and also has a new feature > > I've not seen other regex packages, reusable named patterns. For > > example, one of the standard patterns is a URL: pattern that has named > > elements like protocol, port, domain name, etc. Rather than having to > > copy and paste one of these patterns into your own, you can refer to > > them by name. I'm a bit stalled on the design of user pattern libraries > > at the moment, but this is a very powerful concept. > > That /does/ sound very useful. > > Apart from that, does your version support pre-compilation of regexes? > Yes it does. > > Regex support I've used elsewhere has allowed that, so that eg a regex > used in a loop can be compiled/prepared once then that internal form is > used each time the programmer wants it executed. > > I suppose it depends on how the back-end regex support is written whether > or not that produces any kind of advantage. > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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