Pattern matching software. The pattern syntax was inspired by SNOBOL-4
based on Dmitry A. Kazakov Pattern Matcher code http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/match/match_1_1.tgz (c) Dmitry A. Kazakov mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de, 2001
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Pattern matching software. The pattern syntax was inspired by SNOBOL-4. The software features finite repeaters, labels, recursive patterns, run-time assignment support, user-defined patterns, various strategies for infinite repeaters. The implementation is oriented mainly to be called from user-written code - the most efficient and handy way to use patterns. However a filter style is allowed as well.
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Pattern matching is a powerful tool for syntax analysis. The main idea of pattern matching comes from the SNOBOL4 language (see the wonderful book THE SNOBOL4 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE by R. E. Griswold, J. F. Poage and I. P. Polonsky). Some of the pattern expression atoms and statements were taken from there. One can find that patterns are very similar to the Backus-Naur forms. Comparing with the regular expressions (used by grep and egrep in UNIX) patterns are more powerful, but slower in matching.
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The current version works under Windows and UNIX.