[m-dev.] regular expressions

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Dec-1999, Peter Schachte <peter at koan.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:55:37PM +1100, Michael Day wrote:
> > My primary question though is related to implementation. Is it customary
> > for languages to roll their own regular expression functionality or simply
> > wrap the POSIX library for it?

I'd like to see both.

> DCGs are really pretty nice for this kind of thing.

DCGs work great for regexp matching.
But what about regexp substitution?

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