Am 28.09.2008 um 07:52 schrieb Mark Volkmann:
On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 09:16 -0500, Mark Volkmann wrote:
Does the standard Squeak image contain a class for operating on regular expressions?
No, nothing beside String>>matches: But you can load a regex package from squeaksource. You know squeaksource already?
I wonder why that isn't considered to be such a fundamental thing that it is included. It seems to me that most programming languages other than C/C++ include support for regular expressions now.
IMHO because Smalltalk does not come from the unix-centric world of text-file processing, coupled with the expense of moving a package that is rarely used into the image.
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