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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:57:51 +0100
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:52:42 +0100
"Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry, are you telling everyone that it's too difficult for you to
> write an ungreedy regex that also tests for the possibility of a list
> bounded by [ and ] being part of an atom?

No. I'm saying that it's more effort than simply tokenising by spaces,
and that there's absolutely no benefit in making anyone expend that
effort.
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