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Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ....
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after .... |
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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:57:04 -0400 |
On Tuesday, September 09, 2008, at 09:41AM, "David Bateman" <address@hidden>
wrote:
>
>Grrrr, its more annoying than I thought. PCRE CAN do arbitrary length
>lookahead, but not arbitrary length lookbehind. Thus "(?[a-z]*)" is ok
>but "(?<[a-z]*)" isn't. I'd hoped to replace this with
>"(?<[a-z]{0,MAXLENGTH})" but the variable but not arbitrary length is
>not ok either. What I'd have to do is replace it with
>
>((?<[a-z]{0})(?<[a-z]{1})...(?<[a-z]{MAXLENGTH}))
>
>which used the alternate operator and MALENGTH+1 copies of the
>lookbehind expression to get the effect. This seems to be a ridiculous
>amount of extra crap in the pattern space to get this functionality. Is
>it worth supporting arbitrary length lookbehind expressions like
>"(?<[a-z]*)" if this is what is needed to get it to work with PCRE? Is
>it worth supporting it but limits max_length, and print a warning? If so
>what value should be the limit?
>
>Frankly I wonder how mathworks got this to work as they appear to be
>using the Boost regex library which also doesn't support arbitrary
>length lookbehind expressions....
>
>D.
David,
Have you tried the example in Matlab?
Using 2007b, It does *not* work for me. My 2008a/b is busy running some
simulations, so I can't try it there until later.
>> g='x^(-1)+y(-1)+z(-1)=0';
>> regexprep(g,'(?<=[a-z]*)\(\-[1-9]*\)','\_minus1')
ans =
x^_minus1+y_minus1+z_minus1=0
If I understand correctly the result should be
ans =
x^(-1)+y_minus1+z_minus1=0
Correct?
Ben
- Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., giovanni . lombardo, 2008/09/09
- Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., David Bateman, 2008/09/09
- [Changeset] Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., David Bateman, 2008/09/09
- Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., David Bateman, 2008/09/09
- Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ....,
Ben Abbott <=
- [Changeset] Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., David Bateman, 2008/09/09
- [Changeset] Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., John W. Eaton, 2008/09/09
- Re: [Changeset] Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Changeset] Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., David Bateman, 2008/09/10
Re: Aw: Re: regexp: matching expressions b4 and after ...., Ben Abbott, 2008/09/09