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Re: Regular Expression Parser in Emacs Lisp
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Regular Expression Parser in Emacs Lisp |
Date: |
25 Sep 2009 12:27:36 GMT |
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Nordlöw wrote:
> I need a way to figure
> out if a regexp has a maximum match length and if so what that length
> is.
do you need a full-blown regexp parser for that? AFAICT the regexp syntax
defines precisely which tokens may match more than one character, and in those
cases, the maximum number of characters matched is not given, so that the
maximum length is not defined.
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