Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code

Re:Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code by thesmallestcat on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:25AM (#15852240)

You can straight away drop any repetition of a zero-width assertion, no?

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Re:Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code by perlgeek on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:16PM (#15853287)

You can, but you need to drop the entire zero-width assertion if the repetition allows zero occurrences.

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