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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-09 00:59:21


David Abrahams wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >> I don't know, if regular expressions are powerfull enough to do this
> >> kind of thing. Since the single statements could (theoretically) span
> >> more than one line.
> >
> > If they span several lines, we're out of luck -- since Jam scans file
> > line-by-line. In other cases, I think we can handle it.
>
> I don't think that neccessarily has to be an obstacle. You can
> always use (.*) for the expression and manually parse the information
> inside HDRRULE.

Yes, though it will effectively disable header scanning cache -- all job will
be done in HDRRULE.

- Volodya

 


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