[tpm] I wish I was better at regex's

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "RD" == Richard Dice <richard.dice at gmail.com> writes:

  RD> Those are getting closer, but honestly this can go way beyond the
  RD> realm of what regexps can provide.  For example, the text in the
  RD> comment area... In theory, it could contain text like
  RD> "key"="Val\"ue" ; tricked you!!

  RD> To fully, correctly solve this you need a full parser.  Like
  RD> Parse::RecDescent

  RD> Which is like hitting a melon with an atomic bomb.

you don't need a full parser. this can be done with Text::Balanced from
the looks of it. getting a regex to do it is insane though. just scan
from the left for each possible field. get the key=value with possible
quoted values (i don't have the spec in my head), then check for a
comment and skip/delete it. the module will handle escaped quotes and
most anything you could legally put there. this is very easy when parsed
properly and not easy with a regex.

uri

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