Nick Maclaren wrote: > For reasons that I won't explain, as they are too complicated > and not terribly relevant, I am interested in discovering what > people actually use regular expressions for. Not the subject > domain, but the construction of the regular expressions. > > I know about computer scientists and parsing, and I know about > the use of relatively simple ones for things like extracting > HTML links from Web pages. But I don't have much feel for the > (probably rare but difficult) uses of more complex ones for > other purposes. I have heard of several such uses, but don't > have an overall idea of what is going on. > > Any pointers appreciated, to more-or-less anything.
I just don't get what you're after! Lots of data is available in text form, so sifting though it requires regular expressions. A better question would be: what do you use Perl for, as I'd say most Perl programs utilize REs at some point or the other. But IIRC we've had that thread already. -- Mails please to josef dot moellers and I'm on gmx dot de. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list