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

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "JBL" == J Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> writes:

  JBL> I would expect that you can just count the number of ';'
  JBL> instances in the string, and get the index of the last instance
  JBL> which resides after the last instance of the last single or
  JBL> double quote.  If there are no quotes, then it's the first
  JBL> instance of ';'.

that is backwards. it is much simpler to parse forwards. this is old
school stuff that is done in assemblers and similar syntaxes with
optional fields on a line. you scan allowed fields from left to right
and it all is easy.

uri

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