Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:42 pm, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>> :-) Pehaps, but I haven't used regex much anywhere besides vim.
>
> No perl? A shame. Everybody loves perl ... it's fun ;-)
>
>>
>> If I get to a point where I would use it a *lot*, then I may look
>> into
> that.
>>
>
> I think of regexs as incredibly compact code. If you can write a good
> regex, especially in current scripting languages, you can do a lot of
> work
> in one or two lines of code. Did anyone mention that there is a
> learning
> curve ...? ;-)
>
> Once again, I find myself recommending the Owl book:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/index.html
>
> This is one of those rare books where jumping around is the better way
> to
> read it. The beginning is the basics. Then there are chapters on the
> different regex engines (almost optional but fascinating) and finally
> each
> major app (bash, perl, emacs, etc) has a chapter on regexes in it. But
> if
> you master the basic syntax, that really goes anywhere with only minor
> variations.
>
> Hey, Neil, post this email on the reviews page :-)
Hey Lan, post it yourself! ;-)
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