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Re:A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) by dfox on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:40AM (#12200753)
The issue of strtok() being horrible hack is easily overcame by using str(c)spn() (and optionally bunch of pointer arithmetic).
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Re:A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) by groovy2shoes on Monday August 01, 2016 @05:52AM (#12201186)
Of course. All of the issues with C's string library can be overcome rather easily, if only because it's so very basic.
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