Re: To get things started...

2000-11-23 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: Probably the easiest thing is to implement some sort of file-tied scalar or something that can provide bytes to the regex engine until it stops asking for them. Some magic or other, though, will get us what we need. That might be the easiest thing for

Re: SvPV*

2000-11-23 Thread David Mitchell
It could be argued that the way to implement "enhanced" strings, eg strings with embedded attributes (html, rtf,) is for someone to write a specific SV class to deal with that kind of string. As has been pointed out, a difficulty with this is that standard regexes must be able to operate on

Re: SvPV*

2000-11-23 Thread Roland Giersig
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Chaim Frenkel wrote: I'd offer the possiblity that there are two (or perhaps more) different problems here. One is the current bunch of bytes (string, executable to be twiddled) Another which the attribute on strings