On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:48:32 +0000 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:04:49PM +1300, Don Gould wrote: > > Do it again... > > with lots of examples. > > I did cover it ages ago, but it's the sort of thing that could be done > over again happily. > > Reminded by the discussion that I never uploaded my notes; so I've put > them in to http://clug.net.nz/index.php/RegularExpressions now. > Currently the page is a set of short "exceptions" notes, rather than a > complete explanation, but the slideshow is a PDF attached to the bottom. > > If someone wants to go through regexps again, I'd recommend some > concrete examples - I can get a lot of mileage out of email logs, or > perhaps syslogs (email is great because it usually covers multiple > lines, and that's a challenge - but bad because it may involve exposing > data that is normally private) > > Or, for really shaking out the corners of regexps, the 'expect' program > is great - especially because the data input is not chunked the way you > normally want it to be ... > > -jim > Actually I rather unfortunately missed Jim's talk on it, so I am not personally averse to another session. I would like to see something include on the different RE syntaxes - I understand different programs have different rules - perl, python, egrep etc. However I'd also like to throw the conversation open to some newbies - can we have comment from people who have been using linux for less than, say, 18 months, about what they'd like to see demonstrated or explained?
