Re: The new matcher (Was: Experiences with match() subexpressions?)

On 11.04.2025 10:57, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <67f8b7af$0$705$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Aharon Robbins <arnold@freefriends.org> wrote:
...

Mike Haertel is writing a new regexp matcher for gawk; it was announced
here some time agao: https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx. The code is
in the feature/minrx branch of the gawk Git repository.

 
Just out of curiosity, does the new matcher address the issue raised by
Janis?

I read his post as if he put it under discussion ("I just opened an
issue, [...] about this question. We shall see what develops.") and
the provided link shows this as well.[*]

(I don't see the answers, though, since my browser obviously doesn't
support the web-page's (dynamic?) format. - So I cannot tell what the
state of that discussion is.)

It sounds like you are implying that it does, but do not say so explicitly.
 
[...]

Janis

[*] From https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx/issues/43:

So there are two questions.

    Is it theoretically possible to capture all the instances of
subexpressions matched by the interval expression?

    Can this be brought out into the code? I understand it would take an
extended API with a richer data structure in order to do this. gawk's
extended version of the match() function could then be (somehow)
extended to take advantage of this feature.