Re: Re: xTalk: Delimiters

[Anonymous]

At 6:25 PM +0200 on 6/23/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> put "this" & a string & "that" into myVariable

What's that mean?

>
>So, if it's possible to do this on the programmers' side we could do it.

Hmmm... before opening my mouth about possibility, let me ask what the
result of:

        find "hello" & a string matched & "world" in "hello, hello world
world!"

is.

Is it ", hello " or ", hello world"?

Must a match match the entire "in ..." part? Or should substring amtches be
allowed? Does "a string" eat as few or as many characters as possible? Is
backtracking required?

It would probably add--ummm--noticable complexity to Interpreter, but most
of the code should be availible in a regexp library somewhere. I could
probably swipe it from Perl, for example. Main problem would be translation
to a regexp.

Anyway, I've got to go back to parameter counting :(