Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.re.testing.extract

local {
	complexLinkPat = "<a[ \t\r\n]*[^>]*href[ \t\r\n]*=[ \t\r\n]*\"?([-_~%@:/\\.A-Za-z0-9]+)\"?[^>]*>([^<]*)";
	simpleLinkPat = "<a[ \t\r\n]+[^>]*href[ \t\r\n]*=[ \t\r\n]*\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*>([^<]*)";
	s = string (regex.examples.data.html);
	theList;
	tt;
	patRef};
tt = clock.ticks();
patRef = re.compile (simpleLinkPat);
theList = re.extract (patRef, s, {2,1});
dialog.notify (clock.ticks () - tt + " ticks; " + string (theList))

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.