Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robin Szemeti wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I concur. There is simply too much of the important stuff missing from
> > > > Java to make it useable for web content delivery as far as I can tell.
> > > >
> > > > I just couldn't do half of what I do without regexes
> > >
> > > Since excellent regex libraries are freely available,
> >
> > like I said.. as far as i can tell .. which maybe not very far :)
> >
> > so .. enlighten me .. how would you go about using regexes in Java?
>
> No idea, I just play with it occassionaly to get my head round what's
> going on, after 5 minutes I realise that if I'd been using perl I'd had
> finished by now. This is not "an experienced programmer developes
> faster in their language of choice", but the fact that to do it in jave
> takes loads more code!
>
> I was recently asked how to do substition in strings in ASP - thank the
> lord for regex'es.
Install ActiveState's PerlScript stuff, use Perl as your ASP language.
Problem solved...
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Piers
