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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Recursive descent parsers in perl?
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Date: 2 Jul 90 21:45:26 GMT
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   From: yukngo@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Cheung Yukngo)

   The comments in a header are delimited by "(" and ")"
   and can be nested.  Using regular expressions to recognize them may or
   may not be painful;

I don't know if this has been covered before, but nested structures of
any kind cannot be recognized by regular expressions.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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