On Wed, Aug 21, 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > aahz> I'm mostly going by comments Tim Peters has made in the past > aahz> suggesting that regex tools are poor for parsing. > > parsing != tokenizing. ;-) > Regular expressions are great for tokenizing (most of the time). Ah. Here we see one of the little drawbacks of not finishing my CS degree. ;-) Can someone suggest a good simple reference on the distinctions between parsing / lexing / tokenizing, particularly in the context of general string processing (e.g. XML) rather than the arcane art of compiler technology? -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/
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