Re: Regex niceties for the parser (was Re: To get things started...)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:29:27PM -0500, Rocco Caputo wrote:
> Text::Trie is an amazing little module.  I've abused it in a macro processing
> source filter to build optimum regexps out of lists of tokens.

<plug style="shameless"> Have you tried out Regex::PreSuf? </plug>
I tried making a monster regexp out of /usr/dict/words.  It worked.

> I've attached a proof-of-concept/benchmark program using the interesting bits
> from POE::Preprocessor to build, test, and time regexps.  Results of a sample
> run are included after __END__.

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