On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 15:16, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> There are two approaches. One of them is the computer science way, and
> the other is the diehard-regex-hacker way. I'll show you both (the regex
> way requires Perl 5.6, by the way).
I didn't even think of using regexps. And you called _me_ a regexp
master yesterday. Sigh.
I wrote:
> > I'll bow down to anyone who can make a one-liner of it, naturally.
> It reduced a sizeable algorithm down to one simple regex:
> s/\b(\d+)(?:,((??{1+$+})\n))+/$1-$+/g;
<fx: Chris bows deeply and respectfully>
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