On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Michael Litchard wrote: > I've been working on a project that requires me to do screen scraping. > When I first started this, I worked off of other people's examples. > Not one used regex. By luck I found someone at work to help me along > this project. His clues and hints don't use regex either. I was at a > point where I had to make a decision concerning design, so I asked the > guy sitting next to me at work. He's very experienced, and comes from > a Perl perspective. I let him into what I was doing, and he opined I > should be using pcre. So now I'm second guessing my choices. Why do > people choose not to use regex for uri parsing?
Never believe anything anyone coming from a Perl perspective says about regular expressions. -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
