[SVN] RegExp List Compression

[Ciarán Walsh]

On 16 May 2008, at 20:22, Simon Gregory wrote:

> In a few of the language definitions there are lists of matches  
> which look like this:
>
> (G(erd Knops|a(vin Kistner|rrett J. Woodworth)|ra(nt Hollingworth| 
> eme Rocher))|R(yan McCuaig|ich Barton|o(ss Harmes|ger Braunstein| 
> b(ert Rainthorpe| (Rix|Bevan))))
>
> I'm imagining that it's painful to achieve these by hand, so can  
> anyone point me to a script that does it?

$ cat | ruby /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/Objective- 
C.tmbundle/Support/list_to_regexp.rb
foobar
foobaz
qux
(qux|fooba(z|r))