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Regex flavors (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

it is literally impossible to use regular expressions to parse languages that aren’t regular

It’s impossible to parse the whole syntax tree, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get the subset you’re interested in.