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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A Perl regexp to validate arithmetic expressions Post 302478183 by DGPickett on Tuesday 7th of December 2010 10:04:18 AM
Old 12-07-2010
This sort validation is more a bison/lex/flex sort of thing, probably available in PERL, too. A small state machine in C could apply the rules, too, tracking parse state. However, I suspect even the most talented regex writer cannot decode infinitely complex state in a regex. Some things are easier done in stages, too, like parentheses and quote balance. Each milieu comes with it's own rules about what is an escape, how linefeeds are treated, punctuation of just white space.
 

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