Re:OCaml 4.10
by idbehold on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:34AM
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Still no regular expression negative look-aheads?
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Are you sure you're asking in the right thread? OCaml has a binding to the PCRE library: https://mmottl.github.io/pcre-ocaml/
...the question seems moot to me.
If you need a regex that complicated it’s probably better to be written as a parser. Not only will it be way more performant, it will be much more maintainable.
I agree that if you're designing a system from scratch this makes sense. Ocassionally you need to extend the syntax of an existing system that is written with regular expressions and would require a negative lookahead. Some sub-parser with negative lookahead functionality would be possible, but a regex would be more convenient in a pinch.