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Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> Maybe. I was kind of teasing. I suggested GNAT.Spitbol but I may as well 
> suggest my package Patterns (wait for the secret URL) which support 
> pattern matching of strings of any type of component. And this structure 
> subsumes tuples, no?

Or you could use PragmARC.Regular_Expression_Matcher, without waiting 
for the non-secret URL. It already provides regular expression matching 
for any type of component and any index type. The corresponding example 
program, strm_sub, is a simple but useful stream editor.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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