[fpc-pascal] My favourite missing feature

[ik]

It looks for a date pattern like the follow

10/10/08 and 10/10/2008 with space and then some other chars as well.

I think if it was with boundaries of begin and/or end (^ and $) it would
work even better.

The () indicates groups. each group is the string extracted from the
pattern, and can be used (that's the /1/ and /2/ that he wrote).

This entire thingy called regular expression or regex for short.

Ido


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Marc Weustink <marc at dommelstein.net> wrote:

> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
>> There seem to be a number of people currently making outrageous
>> suggestions about missing features or how FPC could best be repackaged and
>> promoted, so since it's the season of good will I trust that folk will
>> tolerate this one from me.
>>
>> There's been a recent thread in fpc-other on second languages, but it
>> appeared to focus more on what was a useful part of a developer's skillset
>> rather than what people miss from Pascal.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> IF cells[2, dateTime] = /(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/((\d\d)?\d\d)\s.*/i THEN BEGIN
>>
>
> and now in plain english, what does it match ?
>
> Marc
>
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