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Re:The true power of regular expression by andrewcooke on Monday May 27, 2013 @07:47AM (#5774292)
in case it's not clear - the "regular expressions" he's using are perl's (well, based on perl's - PCRE) which are notoriously extended past the theoretical definition, or past what almost all other regexp libs / languages provide.

the examples won't work in python or java, for example.

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Re:The true power of regular expression by abecedarius on Monday May 27, 2013 @11:43AM (#5775016)
Right. In Python you might check out my https://github.com/darius/peglet/blob/master/peglet.py which is PEG-based but tries to feel like a modest extension of the built-in re module.
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