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A structural regular expression engine for Rust

vinhnx
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The post introduces 'match-it-again-sam', a new structural regular expression engine for Rust, highlighting its features and capabilities.

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smitty1e
3d ago
Jamie Z[1] and Jay Z[2] walk into a bar...

[1] https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

[2] https://youtu.be/60XTSx29OnM?si=BuLRkzoMahaHQIvB

librasteve
3d ago
Well if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

My preference would be to knock this up in Raku … probably as a set of Regex, but could easily scale up to a full Grammar.

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