Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Actually, there is, and I conveniently did not mention it :) It's the
> case when the patterns may overlap: if you do the ' 'the' and 'entrance', you might match 'thentrance', which, depending on
> your use case, might not be ideal.
That's a good point, but it's true that
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:53:04PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:32:50PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> >> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> >> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> >> multicharact
Yes, both of those work, and arguably they're a little cleaner
looking than my conjunction approach-- though it's not necessarily any
easier to think about. It looks like a pattern that's matching
for three things in order, but the zero-widthness of the "before"
let's them all work on top of each
This is pretty interesting, though I think you're talking about a
different subject... I was talking about cases where the
sub-patterns are more than one character long. It's true that if
you were interested in single-character sub-patterns, then you
could get close with character classes and nega
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:33 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
> matter.
>
> Frequently the simplest thing to do is just to ju
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:32:50PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
> multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
> matter.
>
> Frequently the simplest thing to do is ju
