Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > > > A regular expression matcher uses a state machine to match strings. > > unless it's the kind of regular expression matcher that doesn't use a > state machine, like the one in Python.
Ah! Well that is outside of my experience then... I've only really studied the matchers produced by flex before. Apologies for the mis-information! -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
