Re: Jed Development

[Michele Dondi <bik.mido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02.16 13/01/03 -0800, Josh Guilfoyle wrote:

> > >   * DFA syntax that can persist across lines.  Also, regular

[...]

> Not exactly.  "^" and "$" is the best example of a zero-width assertion...ther
> is no "beginning of line" character that can be matched but it is asserting
> that it's there, thus it is a zero-width assertion.  Perl regular expressions
> provide an extremely flexible method of using your own assertions that can be
> found through man perlre.  A brief example would be:

As a side note, a minor point (maybe), but possibly relevant here: Perl's 
regular expressions are not DFAs - see 'perldoc -q DFA'.


Michele

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