On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Yes, there is the arbitrary-number-of-parentheses problem, but
> it's just because it's not a job for a regexp. But are there any
> problems except this one in the regexp?
I cannot remember, but I seem to recall having some other problems when
I was playing with it.
> > > It's half a page long,
> >
> > Much longer. It is a Perl script that *generates* a regular expression.
>
> But the regexp itself is quoted on the last (before the index)
> page.
So it is but (a) it occupies at least 3/4 of the page and (b) it is
printed in extremely small type.
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