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* regexp for balanced square brackets
@ 2003-11-19 23:38 Miguel Frasson
  2003-11-19 23:42 ` David Kastrup
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Miguel Frasson @ 2003-11-19 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)



Hi.

Does somebody knows how to make a regexp such that [..], [...[...]..],
[...[.[..].]..] matches? It would be nice if any number of internal [..]
work and "dot" means any characters in a certain set.

Thanks.

Miguel

-- 
Miguel Vinicius Santini Frasson
http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~frasson

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* Re: regexp for balanced square brackets
  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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Kastrup @ 2003-11-19 23:42 UTC (permalink / raw)


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).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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* Re: regexp for balanced square brackets
  2003-11-19 23:42 ` David Kastrup
@ 2003-11-20  1:39   ` Björn Lindström
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Björn Lindström @ 2003-11-20  1:39 UTC (permalink / raw)


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/
ICQ: 82945879

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