Re: Modifiers and variables

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:59:40AM -0400, William McKee wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:38:15PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> > That's not quite what I'm talking about. It doesn't matter if the item is
> > found or not, this is more to do with looking for the end of the expression.
> 
> I see. So your parse_one_arg() would be like a greedy regex trying to
> match as much as possible that can be found in the hash? Why is this
> better than just splitting no white space? I'm guessing it has something
> to do with how TALES is defined.

spitting on whitespace doesn't work e.g.

this/that/method "hello world"

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