Hi, I'm presenting an introduction to regular expressions at the CLUG meeting next Tuesday (http://clug.net.nz/index.php/MeetingSchedule). It will assume no prior knowledge of regular expressions, and a little bit of familiarity with the command line. It won't be covering advanced topics - you can teach yourself those once you know the basics.
Also, my laptop has an annoying intermittent habit when using Linux of occasionally not registering keys while typing. Usually 2-3 key presses simply won't be registered - and sometimes the following key press will be registered in their place. Instead of qwerty I'd get qty or qrrrty. It happens often enough to be annoying but not quite often enough for me to try and fix. This doesn't happen under windows and doesn't happen with a USB keyboard. So can I have a volunteer to bring a USB keyboard please (I don't have one)? And, if I can be so fussy, please make sure it has a double-width backspace key. Actually, I was going to offer to swap a 17 inch CRT for a USB keyboard. I dug it out of storage to get the specs last night, but then I figured out how to get it to dualhead with my laptop, so I want to keep it now :-) Cheers, Carl.
