From: Ian Price <ianpric...@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: regexp character classes not supported? Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:32:02 +0000
> Klaus Schilling <schilling.kl...@web.de> writes: > > > does irregex support SNOBOL-style patterns? > > I have not used SNOBOL, so I can't really say for sure if irregexes > functionality subsumes it. The documentation itself does not refer to > SNOBOL at all. > Snobol's pattern are said to be equivalent to recursive descent parsers with backtracking or to context free grammers. Klaus Schilling
