Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Actually, there is, and I conveniently did not mention it :) It's the
> case when the patterns may overlap: if you do the ' 'the' and 'entrance', you might match 'thentrance', which, depending on
> your use case, might not be ideal.
That's a good point, but it's true that
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:53:04PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:32:50PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> >> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> >> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> >>
Yes, both of those work, and arguably they're a little cleaner
looking than my conjunction approach-- though it's not necessarily any
easier to think about. It looks like a pattern that's matching
for three things in order, but the zero-widthness of the "before"
let's them all work on top of each
This is pretty interesting, though I think you're talking about a
different subject... I was talking about cases where the
sub-patterns are more than one character long. It's true that if
you were interested in single-character sub-patterns, then you
could get close with character classes and
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:33 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
> matter.
>
> Frequently the simplest thing to do is just to
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:32:50PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
> matter.
>
> Frequently the simplest thing to do is
Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
matter.
Frequently the simplest thing to do is just to just do multiple
matches. Let's say you're looking for words that
