Re: Has anyone ever used multiMatch?

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Marc Stern<marc.stern <at> approach.be> wrote:
> Hi Ivan,

Hi Marc,

> I use it, but it is a bit limited because

It is, I agree.

> 1. it tries to map after all transformations where you may only want to map
> after certain transformations (so a "t:match" would be more efficient)

That's an excellent idea.

> 2. most of the time, you need to perform several times a transformation
> (like "t:lowercase") after other ones (decoding ones)
>
> 3. for non breaking rules, there is no way to stop the rule after the first
> match. If you increase a counter by one, it will match 5 times and your
> counter will be increased 5 times also. Obviously, you can bypass this with
> complex rules, but it is not trivial for beginners

I guess this is where transformation via Lua could make more sense, as
 you'd be able to transform things exactly in the order you need.

> Regards
>
> Marc
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