Hello PCRE developpers,
I find myself the last few days writing pcre regexp like :
"^([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)\\s(?i:v|var)(?::|\\.|\\s)\\s?([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)\\s(?i:f|forme)(?::|\\.|\\s)\\s?([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)$"
the double backslash beeing a thing of the String module of the host language, ocaml here.
Is there any plan to add a feature enabling the user to name a part of a regexp like :
[\p{Latin}\-]+
(which is just a souped up \w+)
and reuse it later, would allow more readable writing of long regexp.
(in that particular case, the naming could be \w, redifining \w)
would be a really nice feature !
Note that I'm subscribing to this list just to ask about this, sorry if it's an FAQ.
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Philippe Strauss
http://www.strauss-acoustics.ch/
