Re: regular expressions

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <3h1h74$hnh@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
David Weller <dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
>In article <3gucrg$2dn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
>David D. Shochat <dshochat@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>>Does anyone know of any regular expression pattern matching 
>>tools in Ada? I looked throush the WC CDROM but didn't see
>>anything.

Try AFLEX, an Ada version of Flex (Lex), which I think is on the CD.
It may be a little heavyweight - it is really a lexical scanner builder,
but after all, regular expressions are the language of lexical scanners.

Mike Feldman
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