What about using this pattern matching visualisation with SNOBOL? I'd suggest it could be better for this than RegEx. http://langexplr.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/q

What about using this pattern matching visualisation with SNOBOL? I'd suggest it could be better for this than RegEx. http://langexplr.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/quick-look-at-snobol.html?m=1 http://langexplr.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/quick-look-at-snobol... "The most interesting thing about the language is the string pattern matching capabilities. Here's an small(and very incomplete) example that extracts the parts of a simplified URL string: LETTER = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" LETTERORDOT = "." LETTER LETTERORSLASH = "/" LETTER LINE = INPUT LINE SPAN(LETTER) . PROTO "://" SPAN(LETTERORDOT) . HOST "/" SPAN(LETTERORSLASH) . RES OUTPUT = PROTO OUTPUT = HOST OUTPUT = RES END In line 6, the contents of the LINE variable is matched against a pattern. The pattern contains the following elements: 1.The SPAN(LETTER) . PROTO "://" section says identify a sequence of letters followed by "://" and assign them to the variable called PROTO 2.The SPAN(LETTERORDOT) . HOST "/" secotion says take a sequence of letters and dots followed by "/" and assign then to the variable called HOST 3.Finally the last section takes the remaining letters and slash characters and assign them to the RES variable"