Nicholas Clark wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > I'd offer the possiblity that there are two (or perhaps more)
> > different problems here. One is the current bunch of bytes (string,
> > executable to be twiddled) Another which the attribute on strings
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Probably the easiest thing is to implement some sort of file-tied scalar or
> something that can provide bytes to the regex engine until it stops asking
> for them. Some magic or other, though, will get us what we need.
That might be the easiest thing f
It could be argued that the way to implement "enhanced" strings, eg
strings with embedded attributes (html, rtf,) is for someone
to write a specific SV class to deal with that kind of string.
As has been pointed out, a difficulty with this is that standard
regexes must be able to operate on th
