> On 13.02.2013 21:41, Brandon Allbery wrote:

>> The native solution is a parser like parsec/attoparsec.

"Aleksey Khudyakov" <alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com> replied

> Regexps only have this problem if they are compiled from string. Nothing

> prevents from building them using combinators. regex-applicative[1] uses

> this approach and quite nice to use.
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-applicative

That _is_ a nice package, but
  it _is_ 'a parser like parsec/attoparsec'.