Re: MUMPS Array Subscripts Parsing Via RegEx


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Re: MUMPS Array Subscripts Parsing Via RegEx

by johngg (Canon)

on May 14, 2012 at 22:04 UTC ( [id://970522]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I wonder if the Text::Balanced module would be helpful.

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Re^2: MUMPS Array Subscripts Parsing Via RegEx
by Clovis_Sangrail (Beadle) on May 16, 2012 at 15:31 UTC

At a cursory inspection it looks like this module is something that I'd use instead of Regular expressions. (Unless you can call a Perl Function from within a Regex. Can you do that? (OMG according to http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=832028 you can do just that. My head is going to explode!)). I'm not ready to give up on Regex's yet. I can decompose

$bunch_of_ugly_subscripts$

into

$uglysub,)*uglysub$

and then maybe I'd use variable substitition in the regex and create a separate regex variable that's an alternation for the different kinds of ugly subscripts:

$UG = 'notsougly|uglywith"|uglywith\'|...';

This would be updatable as I encounter different outrageous subscripts. Maybe I'd use calls to the Text::Balanced module functions in here?

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