Alternative to Regular Expressions?

[Bootstrap Bill]

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is
HORRIBLE! IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct
them for you?

Not yet, but I'm eagerly waiting for you to do it.

Good luck!

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions?

What do you mean by "alternative"? Context-free Expressions?
Context-sensitive Expressions?
Or what?

The syntax is HORRIBLE!

Oh, I see. Well, you are welcome to create a new language that defines REs.

IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct
them for you?

In which language (in the broadest sense) would you tell the program what
kind of REs you want?

jue

 

[hubert depesz lubaczewski]

Bootstrap Bill wyrze¼bi³(a):

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

first of all - take a look at Regexp::* modules - they do contain some
of usually needed regexps.

second - what's so horrible about them? i guess that you just learned
that there is something like regexp. and by some accident you happen to
see something long, unreadable and basically awful.

tell me - what's horrible about:
/./
/.*/
/.+/
/[a-z]+/
and so on? this is *readable*, easy to write and easy to understand.

depesz

 

[Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy]

Are there any alternatives to Regular Expressions? The syntax is HORRIBLE!
IF not, has anyone written a program that will construct them for you?

The following page has info on tools to aid in writing and testing REs:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Regular_Expressions/
Maybe it will help.

 

[nobull]

Oh, I see. Well, you are welcome to create a new language that defines REs.

I think the OP should take a look at Ilya's recent posts in
clp.moderated where he proposes to create a new language that defines
REs.