[Haskell-cafe] Re: ghc 6.12.1 and regex

David Fox ddssff at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 13:23:39 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:28 AM, David Fox <ddssff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing this problem:
>
>> :m +Text.Regex.Posix
>> "\250" =~ "\250" :: Bool
> True
>> "\250" =~ "[\250]" :: Bool
> False
>

Paul Tanimoto suggested TDFA, which gets me most of the way there.
However, it can't seem to handle "match anything except a dash":

> "xyz" =~ "^[^-]*$" :: Bool
*** Exception: Explict error in module Text.Regex.TDFA.String :
Text.Regex.TDFA.String died: parseRegex for Text.Regex.TDFA.String
failed:"^[^-]*$" (line 1, column 5):
unexpected "]"
expecting Failed to parse bracketed string


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