Fwd: Regex Searching on Arbitrary Sequences

Very Nice!

It’s a very handy and powerful technique. And I really like the way you
have
generalized it to “all objects”

I have used that technique twice before…

Once decades ago I used it to recognised the longest possible straight
line
sequence of pixel boundaries to do raster to vector conversion in a
exact
and near optimal manner.

More recently I “meta’d” it to step up a lexer to a grammar parser with
LittleLexer. http://littlelexer.rubyforge.org/

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Michael E. [email protected] wrote:

The post can be found here:
http://carboni.ca/blog/p/Regex-Search-on-Arbitrary-Sequences

And the gem can be found here:
GitHub - michaeledgar/object_regex: Perform regex searches on arbitrary sequences.

The gem requires Ruby 1.9+.

Cheers,
Mike Edgar
http://carboni.ca/


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