8 Nov
2004
8 Nov
'04
2:29 a.m.
On 8. Nov 2004, at 3:04, hadley wickham wrote:
[...] I can use begin, end and swallow, but there isn't any way to limit these to single line sequences.
Sort of there is, you can put the end pattern in a positive look-ahead assertion in the begin pattern.
Are there any plans for including them in the future?
Yes.
The second problem, which I haven't been able to overcome, is matching multiline sequences that end with (eg.) two newlines. For example: begin = "\*"; end = "\n{2,}" doesn't match what I'd expect. Is this a known problem?
Known in the sense that patterns are only matched against a single line at a time.
I haven't thought it through, but I think I will be able to remove this limitation in the future.