[cl-ppcre-devel] Buffered multi-line question

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:46:56 +0200, Sébastien Saint-Sevin <seb-cl-mailist at matchix.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure to fully understand what you mean.  I've coupled filter
> with registers coz I plan to use it at multiple places in the regex.

Yes, but the coupling with registers is costly if your filter doesn't
use registers.

> Ex: If I use two dictionaries, I can say (regex string in double
> quote (no parse tree here)).
>
> (:sequence
>    (:register "\b\w+\b")
>    (:filter 1 check-dic1)
>    " *[0-9]{5} *"
>    (:register "\b\w+\b")
>    (:filter 2 check-dic2))
>
> This would match the full string that consists of two words that are
> in my dictionaries and that are separated by
> space(s)-fivedigits-space(s). Plus, I can extract via registers the
> two elected values.

I've just released a new version which implements a filter variant
that should enable you to do this as well. These filters are also
(hopefully) properly integrated into the optimization process.

Thanks for urging me to do this... :)

Cheers,
Edi.