Does the interpreter do any caching of parsed regular expressions (to avoid having to reparse each string)? If not, could you give us access to a function that would let us store a compiled regex for repeated use? You could even hide the implementation in a built-in foop context :).
Jeff
Jeff
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Old programmers don't die. They just parse on...
Yes, since version 7.2 (Oct 2003) newLISP does cache the last compiled regex pattern, so on repeated use the same pattern gets parsed and compiled only once.