Re: An alternative to regular expressions

2015-09-09 Thread norm
Stefan Reich writes: >Interesting. But I am missing examples... Sorry, we are not used to this forum. DateTime.java, is an extensive example. It parses an RFC2822, Internet Message date field. SimpleExamples.java has lots of examples. The documentation for some methods, for example, Matcher.app

Re: An alternative to regular expressions

2015-09-07 Thread Stefan Reich
Interesting. But I am missing examples... (You might consider using JavaX, where examples always come bundled. :o) Stefan Am 07.09.2015 17:04 schrieb : > My colleague, Jeff Rothenberg, and I, retirees, have developed an > alternative > to using regular expressions for searching for (and optional

Re: An alternative to regular expressions

2015-09-07 Thread Sergio Fernández
Hi Normal, then the first step is to discuss the contribution with the Apache Commons project. You can find the right list at http://commons.apache.org/mail-lists.html Hope that helps. Cheers, On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:39 PM, wrote: > My colleague, Jeff Rothenberg, and I, retirees, have deve

An alternative to regular expressions

2015-09-07 Thread norm
My colleague, Jeff Rothenberg, and I, retirees, have developed an alternative to using regular expressions for searching for (and optionally replacing) patterns in text. We believe it is generally useful to Java programmers and would like to contribute it to Apache Commons, where we will continue t