On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Christopher Molnar <cmolna...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all! >> >> Sorry to have to ask the experts here for some regex assistance again. I >> am admittadly awful with these and could use some help. >> >> Any suggestions? >> > > I have found over the years that it is far easier to write a short PHP or > PERL program to do tasks like this. Much easier to debug and the speed > improvement by using SQL is not important for 200,000 records. > > If all you end up doing is using regular expressions in Perl then I'm not sure how that solves the "inexperienced at regular expressions" problem...so what kind (if any) of non-regex based solution would you implement to accomplish this goal. I'll admit that, being familiar with regular expressions, I probably tend to resort to them by default now when other solutions - if I stopped to think of them - would be less matrix-y. Obviously a simple find-replace is unlike to work well though some form of "split-and-rearrange" could work - but URLs seem to want the flexibility since defining split points in one seems challenging. David J.
