[osis-core] Grain regex

Patrick Durusau osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:31:34 -0400


Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>Patrick,
>
>>Todd,
>>
>>
>>Doesn't cost any more and you get more robust addressing. Would be
>>
>more
>
>>difficult to specify and implement white space delimited tokens only,
>>and the ultimate ability is less useful. (I know, an argument for MS
>>
>to
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>>do it that way but I prefer the other result. ;-)
>>
>>Note that unless there is a very good reason to not do the square
>>brackets that lands in my inbox by tomorrow morning, I will issue 1.1
>>(as a beta for buidling texts) final to appear by say 1 September(?)
>>
>by
>
>>tomorrow at NOON.
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>
>What is the motivation behind [ and ] for string?  Why not use : for
>both cases?
>
>Todd
>
I think it is necessary to delimit the begining and ending of the 
string, like quotes would be used in an attribute value. (Steve? comments?)

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Society of Biblical Literature
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