[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rad [Visual C# MVP] wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:36:31 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: > > > > > Dustan wrote: > > >> Kleine Aap wrote: > > >>> Asper Faner wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> I seem to always have hard time understaing how this regular expression > > >>>> works, especially how on earth do people bring it up as part of > > >>>> computer programming language. Natural language processing seems not > > >>>> enough to explain by the way. Why no eliminate it ? > > Hi folks, fairly new to the list(Python is my first programming > language, so I'm fairly new to the world of programming too)but this is > a question I've been wondering about since I started learning about the > re module. Are regular expressions what makes mark up languages > interpretable by webbrowsers?
I don't actually know the answer, but my educated guess: Regular expressions are just the simplest way to parse any text, but there are other ways. Webbrowsers most likely depend on regular expressions just because it's a relatively quick and easy way to interpret the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
