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From: Christos Chryssochoidis <C.Chryssochoidis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Range types
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:08:23 +0300
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Thanks for the hint. I 'll have a look at both the standard packages' 
routines and the Spitbol packages.

Regards,
C.C.


Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:14 +0300, Christos Chryssochoidis wrote:
> 
> 
>> For this it would be nice if there were some 
>> package for regular expressions for Ada.
> 
> The Strings hierarchy actually has some RE processing routines,
> at least if you consider types for character ranges and
> character sets, together with subprograms that scan strings for
> occurrences of characters from these sets.
> 
> If you have GNAT, a non-portable Ada solution can well be based
> on the Spitbol packages, which include the most powerful
> pattern matching machinery.
> 
> 
>