From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Parser in Emacs Lisp
Date: 25 Sep 2009 12:27:36 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhbpdnr.3cg.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6f9bbe70-083c-43b0-864a-b2ac050605d1@f33g2000vbm.googlegroups.com
Nordlöw wrote:
> I need a way to figure
> out if a regexp has a maximum match length and if so what that length
> is.
do you need a full-blown regexp parser for that? AFAICT the regexp syntax
defines precisely which tokens may match more than one character, and in those
cases, the maximum number of characters matched is not given, so that the
maximum length is not defined.
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-25 12:01 Regular Expression Parser in Emacs Lisp Nordlöw
2009-09-25 12:08 ` Joost Kremers
2009-09-25 12:17 ` Nordlöw
2009-09-25 12:27 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2009-09-29 9:42 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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