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Re: Regular Expressions [message #24236 is a reply to message #15713]

Tue, 20 March 2001 15:23

Craig Markwardt
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:

> "Wayne Landsman" <landsman@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:3AB7BA3E.CA411E1B@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov...
>> Of course, one should probably add an English comment to the use of STRGEX
>>
>> ; Find the substring beginning with an "=", followed by any number
>> ; of characters, followed by a quote, followed by any number of
>> ; characters (including double quotes) up to the last single quote.
>> ; Extract from this substring all characters between the first
>> ; and last single quotes.
>
> So, you're saying that STREGEX is a good thing because (like HISTOGRAM) it
> allows you to write code in which the executable statements are several
> times shorter than the comments required to explain them?

Wouldn't that be APL?

Craig

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