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Invisible wrote:
> If there are more than three digits, the above parser fails, and no
> other alternatives are tried (i.e., no backtracking).
Then you aren't doing what regular expressions can do.
In order to *get* the power of regexp, *your* parser has to backtrack. So if
you turn backtracking off, there are trivial regular expressions you can't
match. If you turn backtracking on, you're using more time and space than a
regular expression engine.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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