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Regexes can't be used for parsing (e.g. the language of balanced parantheses)
by zodiac 9y ago
Regexes can't be used for parsing (e.g. the language of balanced parantheses)
- ThePadawan 9y agoI think your parent post referred to using a parser to parse regexes, not using regexes to parse another language.
- steveklabnik 9y agoRegular languages cannot. Many (most?) implementations of “regular expressions” can express more complex grammars. (My sibling is also correct)