# Using \`match\` ellipses on multiple elements?
**URL:** https://racket.discourse.group/t/using-match-ellipses-on-multiple-elements/2891
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 28, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/using-match-ellipses-on-multiple-elements/2891 "2024-04-28T21:37:25Z")
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### Author:  [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/using-match-ellipses-on-multiple-elements/2891/1 "2024-04-28T21:37:25Z")
Context: getting creative with target language syntax in a PL course.
I want to use `match` ellipses to apply to multiple elements. `syntax/parse` has a `~seq` feature that handles this. Here's what I would like to write, imagining that the `~seq` feature was present in match:
```scheme
(match '{locals : x = 3 : y = {+ 4} : {+ x y}}
[(list 'locals ': (~seq vars '= var-exprs ':) ... expr)
(list vars var-exprs expr)])
```
In other words, I want the ellipsis to apply to vars, the equal sign, the var-exprs, and the trailing colon. Is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
(To be clear: it's very easy to do this by soaking up all the elements between the first and last, and just using a helper function. The question is just whether there's match magic that can make this fly.)
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### Author:  [@samth](https://racket.discourse.group/u/samth)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/using-match-ellipses-on-multiple-elements/2891/2 "2024-04-29T01:08:19Z")
No, match does not implement this portion of the syntax-parse algorithm.