On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, ross brunson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Maybe they just haven't finished the book yet. :)
>
> My point exactly...

Perhaps...but at what point does it become coddling?   Is the level of
'character set', quantifier, and groupings too much?

PS - I'm ambivalent on REs making it into this exam.  If fgrep is used
as a gateway to REs, that's fine.  But REs do show up as core parts of
Perl, Tcl, Awk, and other commonly used languages.  Used in tools like
grep, Apache, vi, nano, etc.. Even in shell scripting with the case
statement (if you consider globs a form of RE).

PPS - Or maybe I'm just a softy on the subject because Henry Spencer
is a fellow Torontonian. :)

Regards,
-- 
G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>                         gpg id: EF9AAD20
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