On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:53 AM, John Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Regular expressions is the most god-awful piece of clap-trap garbage I have > ever laid my eyes on. Yeah for you PC programmers! Groans of disbelief from > us mainframe programmers at the obtuse, obfuscating gibberish that RE > is and that we will be forced into learning.
Each cat his own rat. I find PCRE regular expression no more difficult to grasp than the APL language or SQL. They are very powerful. And, yes, they are "arcane". If you think regexps are gibberish, look at the emacs commands. Oh, wow! The old UNIX programmer observation is true: Any random line noise is probably a valid emacs command string. -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown
