From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile regular expressions are too greedy Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:32:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87eis8etcz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4A66E467.2060709@btinternet.com> <87zlawj4cd.fsf@gnu.org> <4A671033.6010503@btinternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248269570 21308 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 13:32:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:50 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 15:32:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTbw1-0006gF-3V for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:32:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTbw0-0004iD-Ef for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTbvv-0004dV-01 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTbvo-0004Q2-5W for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40567 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTbvn-0004Pd-W1 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41243 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTbvn-0001z8-DU for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MTbvj-0000ZS-Tq for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:23 +0000 Original-Received: from laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr ([147.210.128.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:23 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 4 Thermidor an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xxHiYY21PY9Ffe0DoTzC8QvmIog= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7369 Archived-At: Chris Dennis writes: > Unfortunately the name of the font really is "Nimbus Sans L" -- it's > the fact that font names can contain spaces that causes the problem, > and means that I can't use ([^ ]+) to match the font name. Aaah, I understand. Then it may be that POSIX regexps are too inflexible for that job. Perhaps you could use something like SRFI-13's `string-tokenize' to split the string into individual words, and then write your own processor to determine which words are part of the font name, and which words are font hints. Thanks, Ludo'.