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

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

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <co...@co...> writes:

    Colin> For XML 1.1, the equivalent to \c is 3830417 bytes long.

    Colin> This is definitely too big, so something is wrong with the
    Colin> test program.

No.
What is wrong is that this figure includes all as yet unallocated
code-points (barring a few excluded ones).

For XML 1.0, the figure is 104080.

Either way, the strings are too long, so a proper Unicode-aware
regular expression engine is needed.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire