On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Brian Fraser <frase...@gmail.com> wrote: > No. Just, no.
On this list, I think that counts as high praise. Thanks! > Read this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4077896/perl-or-python-convert-date-from-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd/4078817#4078817 Err, which part? tchrist is an expert on dealing with unicode in various languages/regex engines and in real-world "text" data, but I think he's overreaching there; I don't expect my date strings to include non-ASCII digits. I can see some software butchering - into a non-ASCII dash character, but I'd tend to treat fixing that as a separate problem. (Though that was actually a motivation in having my regex looking for /, not -.) > Then forget about using regexen and find a module to do it for you. > Regexp::Common::time is pretty nice, albeit slow if you are doing millions > of validations. > (But in the spirit of this list, sure, that's cool. Would be cooler if you > could abstract it using (?(DEFINE)) :) Meh. I think that would only obfuscate it.
