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A comment on Regex Parser in C Using Continuation Passing. Parent comment

Re:Regex Parser in C Using Continuation Passing by zodiac on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:58PM (#15972005)
Regexes can't be used for parsing (e.g. the language of balanced parantheses)
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Re:Regex Parser in C Using Continuation Passing by ThePadawan on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:13PM (#15972167)
I think your parent post referred to using a parser to parse regexes, not using regexes to parse another language.
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Re:Regex Parser in C Using Continuation Passing by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:25PM (#15972292)
Regular languages cannot. Many (most?) implementations of “regular expressions” can express more complex grammars.

(My sibling is also correct)

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