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Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 10:06:42 AM, Curtis wrote:
> LOT. :-) One thing though, it requires practice like a spoken language.
Yes, it does. Just like spoken language it can also get very complex,
esp. when one considers there are different "dialects" of regex (Posix and
Perl).
If the list is interested, and moderators willing, I can provide a
practical example of that from a recent programming project.
> If your not going to really use it a lot, it's probably not worth the
> effort. I've forgotten most of what I read. I'm going to have a go at it
> again since I bought the darned thing. <g>
I find that I do that a lot with the different languages I've picked up
over time. Esperanto I've mostly forgotten though I am determined to learn it
eventually. Perl took me 2-3 starts to digest it to a usable state. Some
portions of Perl (hashes and regex) also took several tries before I was able
to work with them effectively. I will say this about regex, once you learn
them and use them you find that there are a lot of uses for them that you
never would have thought of before. Esp. when it comes to complex search and
replace operations or parsing, well, regular expressions in language which are
not easily parsed by simpler functions in computer languages. An example, the
above one in fact, are dice codes for RPGs. :)
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