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What do you mean by "regular expression"? Because they're generally not regular. If you mean a parser for a notation expressing regular grammars, then it only
by yarg 4y ago
What do you mean by "regular expression"?
Because they're generally not regular.
If you mean a parser for a notation expressing regular grammars, then it only takes a couple of hours to knock out a recursive descent parser (if you know what you're doing).
- jcranmer 4y agoI mean implementable by your standard regex library in your favorite programming language, which is largely a PCRE-style regular expression (although backreferences and lookahead/lookbehind aren't necessary).