Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 15/08/12 20:52, Gary Johnson wrote: >> >> On 2012-08-15, jcordes wrote: >> >>> Anyone else reading can probably tell from the followup I made to >>> my own post shows that I have confused myself quite thoroughly on >>> this point! >> >> >> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll >> use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. >> -- Attributed to Jamie Zawinski >> >> Regards, >> Gary >> > > Oh, regular expressions work quite nicely, but AFAICT each of the Unix > programs which uses them has an almost, but not quite, identical grammar for > them.
Of course regexp work, but I suppose that the quote from Jamie Zawinski means that there are ways to shoot yourself in the foot with a regexp. There are many ways to write regexps to match an input text. Some correct, some incorrect, some fast, some slow. Sometimes a regexp can match with exponential complexity with some regexp engines. See http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html -- Dominique -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
