From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Analyzing Regular Expressions (Regexps) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244148433 4180 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2009 20:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:47:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 22:47:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCJqA-0005Ni-Eu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:47:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCJq9-0001QJ-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:47:09 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.170.250.228 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244113124 13074 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2009 10:58:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.170.250.228; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; sv-se) AppleWebKit/528.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.17, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169713 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64942 Archived-At: Does anyone know of code that analyzes the logical structure of native emacs regular expressions (regexps). My primary wishes are to 1. check whether it contains any regexp special characters at all 2. determine the size limits (if any) of a given regexp Maybe we could hook into the native C-code written logic for parsing them and get this functionaliy. Many thanks in advance, Nordl=F6w