Hi,
you can use named recursion for that. Search for (DEFINE) in
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html However, you should remember that recursion is atomic in PCRE.
Or if you use a script language you can simply assign a string variable and concatenate it:
word = "[\p{Latin}\-]+"
regex="(" + word + "," + word + ")+"
Just be creative ;)
Regards,
Zoltan
Philippe Strauss <philippe@???> írta:
>Hello PCRE developpers,>
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I find myself the last few days writing pcre regexp like :>
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"^([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)\\s(?i:v|var)(?::|\\.|\\s)\\s?([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)\\s(?i:f|forme)(?::|\\.|\\s)\\s?([\\p{Latin}\\-]+)$">
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the double backslash beeing a thing of the String module of the host language, ocaml here.>
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Is there any plan to add a feature enabling the user to name a part of a regexp like :>
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[\p{Latin}\-]+>
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(which is just a souped up \w+)>
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and reuse it later, would allow more readable writing of long regexp.>
(in that particular case, the naming could be \w, redifining \w)>
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would be a really nice feature !>
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Note that I'm subscribing to this list just to ask about this, sorry if it's an FAQ.>
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