Why Strings as Classes?

[BCS]

Reply to superdan,

> Benji Smith Wrote:
> 
>> superdan wrote:
>> 
>>>> Noooooooobody uses backtracking to parse.
>>>> 
>>> guess that makes perl regexes et al noooooooobody.
>>> 
>> I suppose it depends on your definition of "parse".
>> 
> well since you was gloating about handling a csv file as "parsing" i
> thot i'd lower my definition accordingly :)
> 
> p.s. sorry benji. you are cool n all (tho to be brutally honest
> listenin' more an' talkin' less always helps) but you keep on raisin'
> those easy balls fer me. what can i do? i keep on dunkin'em ;)
> 

A CVS parser can be interesting if you have high enough performance demands 
(e.g. total memory footprint smaller than a single field might be)