From: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)
Subject: Re: regexp for balanced square brackets
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:39:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877k1vn7ib.fsf@lucien.dreaming> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5islglych.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Miguel Frasson <frasson@brutus.math.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
>
>> Does somebody knows how to make a regexp such that [..], [...[...]..],
>> [...[.[..].]..] matches?
>
> No. But some people know how to prove that a regexp won't cut it, ever
> (some Perl extensions to regexps can do, IIRC).
If you want to do this in Emacs, maybe you should just write the
structure you want as a Lisp expression, and just have Elisp parse
it. (It's kind of hard to tell without knowing what you are trying to
do, however.)
--
Björn Lindström <bkhl@elektrubadur.se>
http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 23:38 regexp for balanced square brackets Miguel Frasson
2003-11-19 23:42 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-20 1:39 ` Björn Lindström [this message]
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