On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho <rhcarva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 2) Why there are two kinds of regexps, #rx and #px? >> > #rx"\\d{2}" doesn't work because the curly braces are part of just >> > pregexps >> > grammar... >> >> #px is more powerful than #rx, but that power costs. Most regexps can >> get by with what #rx has.
The origin of #px is "Perl-compatible regular expression", while #rx are compatible with command-line tools such as egrep. --Carl _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users