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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fB5NU1200030
for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:30:02 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:12:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Taybin Rutkin <trutkin@physics.clarku.edu>
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To: Eka Laiman <eka@corp.cirrus.com>
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Subject: Re: Bio Informatics
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Eka Laiman wrote:
> Taybin Rutken wrote:
> > I would be very interested in seeing a comparsion of Perl's regex
> > capabilities and Icon's string scanning.
>
> I believe that there is "regexp.icn" package in "library" package of
> ICON which takes PERL regexp syntax and translates them into ICON and
> execute the codes.
Right. It's easy to do as a library. Python does this as well. I was
wondering if Perl's inclusion of it in the definition of the language
would give it some special ability. This question would be better
answered on a different mailing list, I suspect.
That said, I do agree that suspending scanning probably makes Icon's
string scanning more powerful.
Taybin