Recursive Regular Expressions

2010-03-24 2 min read bash Fedora Linux
<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/yo-dawg-regex.jpg" alt="Yo dawg, I heard you liked regular expressions, so I put a regex in your regex so you can match while you match!" align="bottom" /> The <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/regular_expression" title="Regular expression" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regular expressions we use in our daily lives are actually not that “regular.” Most of the languages support some kind of extended regular expressions that are computationally more powerful than the “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regular” regular expressions as defined by the <a href="http://en. Continue reading