On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Erik Price wrote: > --- Stephen Reppucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Am I the only one who rolls their eyes and coughs when I come > > across something like this in someone else's code? : > > > > s/([^a-zA-Z])//g; > > I don't remember posting it like that... if I did then it was a typo > b/c the code doesn't try to capture the removed data (that's why I'm > using tr/// in the first place).
Oops, my bad -- I wasn't trying to attribute that code to anything you posted, that was just a tangential remark about a usage I often come across in code written by newbies. <Steve> -- Steve Reppucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Logical Choice Software http://logsoft.com/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My God! What have I done? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

