> > Sorry not helpful for your situation exactly, but I don’t know about regex > being easier to read than an old C style method. >
Ah, a religious coding war. The C++ raw parsing code that was transliterated into C# looks like classic C from the late 1970s (it was actually written in Borland C++ in the early 90s), and it really reminds me of the S/360 assembler I wrote in the mid 1980s. The only difference between early C and the assembler is the indentation. The C-style parsing code is about 50 lines of code with ijk ints and indexing. The Regex equivalent is 5 short lines (but 10x slower). Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? *Greg* >
