Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Regular expression syntax

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

    Eric> I must confess that I don't know what you are talking about
    Eric> with "these kind of tests". Are you talking about \i and \c?

Yes.
And also the more general \p{property_name}.

Assuming we could implement it in the first place (I don't see how
that could be done by translation, so it would have to be an extension).
Suppose property_name is Upper_Case. Then because we are matching
against the UTF-8 byte-stream, the engine would produce matches based
on whether or not the individual bytes were upper-case in the Latin-1
character set, rather than if the Unicode characters were upper case.

For an extreme example, imagine a propery Is_Latin_1 (I don't think
there is such a property, but it#s a nice example). The engine will
then match the entire string for any input whatsoever!

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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire