Alternative to Regular Expressions?

[Bootstrap Bill]

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Bootstrap Bill wrote:

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is
HORRIBLE! IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct
them for you?

Not yet, but I'm eagerly waiting for you to do it.

Good luck! :)

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[Jürgen Exner]

Bootstrap Bill wrote:

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions?
What do you mean by "alternative"? Context-free Expressions?
Context-sensitive Expressions?
Or what?
The syntax is HORRIBLE!
Oh, I see. Well, you are welcome to create a new language that defines REs.
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct
them for you?

In which language (in the broadest sense) would you tell the program what
kind of REs you want?

jue

[hubert depesz lubaczewski]

Bootstrap Bill wyrze¼bi³(a):

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

first of all - take a look at Regexp::* modules - they do contain some
of usually needed regexps.

second - what's so horrible about them? i guess that you just learned
that there is something like regexp. and by some accident you happen to
see something long, unreadable and basically awful.

tell me - what's horrible about:
/./
/.*/
/.+/
/[a-z]+/
and so on? this is *readable*, easy to write and easy to understand.

depesz

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[Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy]

Bootstrap Bill wrote:

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

The following page has info on tools to aid in writing and testing REs:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programmin...r_Expressions/
Maybe it will help.