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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@Oracle.Com> writes:
> That's the real point, I believe: the paper touts the use of regexps
> to divide text into chunks that match - chunks that are not
> necessarily lines, in order to then act on those chunks in some way.

Not a good base, I think -- regexps are not really powerful enough to do
the job well.

-Miles

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