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2025-11-01 16:24 UTC
@jbert@hachyderm.io @oac@fosstodon.org Oh, and Oliver: I'll definitely be writing up all of this nonsense in a blog post when I've tidied it up a bit 😅
Pretty sure I can get this set up to work as a structex grep, sed and _maybe_ awk, but proper awk would require a full scripting language so maybe that's one for another time...!
Hooking this in to ad is then just a case of wrapping this in an outer parser that handles the address expressions for setting the initial dot I think 🤞
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@oac@fosstodon.org 2025-11-01 16:39
@sminez@hachyderm.io @jbert@hachyderm.io That's awesome, I'm excited to check it out! As it happens I woke up early this morning and couldn't fall back asleep because my brain was working through how to do a streaming-based structed system (with a naive placeholder matching system to start) so the focus is on how to efficiently compute potentially overlapping chains, then figure out the regex syntax later. I might sketch out something during my travels this weekend (but I have a cubesnake to optimize first... XKCD 3125)