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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients ezio.melotti, mattchaput, mrabarnett
Date 2011-08-31.17:54:31
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These additions sounds more useful as an external tool than regex functions/methods.  There are already a few tools able to "explain" what a regex matches.
The use cases you proposed are too specific to deserve new methods, and using them programmatically sounds like premature optimization IMHO.
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Date User Action Args
2011-08-31 17:54:32ezio.melottisetrecipients: + ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, mattchaput
2011-08-31 17:54:32ezio.melottisetmessageid: <1314813272.4.0.377831978088.issue12870@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-08-31 17:54:31ezio.melottilinkissue12870 messages
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