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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] Re: regexps</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Mar 25 11:34:24 1996
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:20:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Stephen Smoogen &lt;smooge@duracef.shout.net&gt;
To: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;199603251535.QAA19382@regoc.srce.hr&gt;

On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Miroslav Silovic wrote:

&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; As I recall, one of the big problems Greg faced when choosing how to
&gt; &gt; implement regexps was to find a way to easily implement MOO-style
&gt; &gt; 'incomplete command' expressions.  In MOO, you canhave a verb
&gt; &gt; 'foob*ar' that will match foob, fooba and foobar.  How does one
&gt; &gt; construct this with a perl regexp?  hrmm... 'foob|fooba|foobar' 

I think fooba?r? which would match foob fooba foobar (also foobr)

&gt; We have templates for those. There is no easy way to simulate MOO
&gt; commands with any standard flavour of regexps.

Aint that the truth :)

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