"Talin" wrote:
> I've run in to this problem a couple of times. Say I have a piece of
> text that I want to test against a large number of regular expressions,
> where a different action is taken based on which regex successfully
> matched. The naive approach is to loop through each regex, and sto
OK that worked really well. In particular, the "lastindex" property of
the match object can be used to tell exactly which group matched,
without having to sequentially search the list of groups.
In fact, I was able to use your idea to cobble together a poor man's
lexer which I am calling "reflex"
Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 1) Combine all of the regular expressions into one massive regex, and
> let the regex state machine do all the discriminating. The problem with
> this is that it gives you no way to determine which regex was the
> matching one.
Place each regex into a pare
I've run in to this problem a couple of times. Say I have a piece of
text that I want to test against a large number of regular expressions,
where a different action is taken based on which regex successfully
matched. The naive approach is to loop through each regex, and stop
when one succeeds. How
