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

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

>>>>> "Franck" == Franck Arnaud <fr...@ne...> writes:

    >> For XML 1.1, the equivalent to \c is 3830417 bytes long.
    >> 
    >> This is definitely too big, so something is wrong with the test
    >> program. Can anyone see where the fault is (I know it's not the
    >> most efficient way of doing it):

    Franck> it should get (much?) more compact by collapsing adjacent
    Franck> ranges into forms "\x\y[\z1-\z2]" or "\x\y." (example for
    Franck> 3 byte utf8 sequences.)

I don't understand what you mean.

But you have drawn my attention to ranges. E.g. [a-z] is fine, because
both ends are single-byte UTF-8 sequences. But if you put latin-1
accented characters (for instance) at the end of the ranges, then
nothing works.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire