[fpc-pascal] My favourite missing feature

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Frank de Groot (Rent-a-Geek) wrote:
>> What /I/ miss is Perl's pattern matching, and I miss it to the extent 
>> that in some of my own scripting stuff I've implemented it myself:
> 
> There are RexExp units available..

I know- you don't really think I've written the code from scratch do 
you? The issue is the convenience of being able to embed regexes and 
backrefs in the language rather than the availability of suitable units.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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