On 16 December 2017 at 17:28, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com> wrote:
Never try to read regexp, it's write only

its highly susceptible to Kernighan's Lever to shoot yourself in the foot...
�� ��"You separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized regexp,��
�� ��and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs.��
�� ��However, the program fails to run and you can't correct it since��
�� ��you don't understand what the hell it is you've written."��
http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html

cheers -ben




2017-12-16 9:09 GMT+01:00 Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com>:
ouaaahhhhhh ;)
My problem was that I had complex lines as elements. and I will not be
able to remember and express anything with regex

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Martin Dias <tinchodias@gmail.com> wrote:
> If your input was a string instead of a list of lines, you had:
>
> '[^4]*4|.+' asRegex matchesIn: '1234123123456'
>>>>
>�� "an OrderedCollection('1234' '1231234' '56')"
>
> Mart��n
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks sean.
>> I will build it because for example I had list of lines and I needed
>> to split the input depending
>> on patterns inside the lines.... and sadly this was not for an advent of
>> code.
>>
>> Rmoders suggested
>> aggregateRuns:
>> splitOn:
>> but this is not the same.
>>
>>
>> Stef
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Stephane Ducasse-3 wrote
>> >> #(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 ) consumeUntil: [:each | each = 4)
>> >>>>> {#(1 2 3 4) . #( 1 2 3 5 6 )}
>> >
>> > The shortest kernel thing I could come up with took two steps: `{ #(1 2
>> > 3 4
>> > 1 2 3 5 6 ) copyUpThrough: 4.
>> > #(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 ) copyAfter: 4 }`. The splitting messages seem to
>> > all
>> > eat the separator.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----
>> > Cheers,
>> > Sean
>> > --
>> > Sent from:
>> > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html
>> >
>>
>