Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
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Personally I think that writing bulky procedural stuff for
something like [0-9]+ can only be much worse, and that further
abbreviations like \d+ are the better direction to go if targeting
a good interface.  YMMV.

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Assuming that p is a pointer to the current position in a string, e
is a pointer to the end of it (ie, point just past the last byte)
and - that's important - both are pointers to unsigned quantities,
the 'bulky' C equivalent of [0-9]+ is
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while (p < e && *p - '0' < 10) ++p;