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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Expression Parser
Date: 1999/08/09
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>>>>> "David" == David C Hoos, <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:

David> Speaking of Perl... I also had a need for an expression parser
David> in an Ada program.  After looking at what's available, and the
David> time it would take to do what I need in Ada, I decided on
David> embedding a Perl interpreter.

Well, it would have probably been simpler to interface with the PCRE
library (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions).

  Sam
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