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Re: Re: Re: Using regexps to parse an XML DTD fileby merlyn (Sage) |
on Nov 26, 2000 at 07:50 UTC ( [id://43343]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
A single regex cannot generate a variable number of backreferences. What do you think this is, Java? 1{grin}
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker 1The Java regex library I saw caused /(\w+)\s+)+/ to generate a variable number of backreferences, making it impossible to know exactly what part of the match you were looking at. Evil. They just don't get it.
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