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Re: Regular Expressions [message #24237 is a reply to message #15713]

Tue, 20 March 2001 15:28

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Registered: January 2000

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Mark Hadfield wrote:
>>
>> ; 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?

I take that as a personal jab. Actually, the code I write is much more
comprehensible than the examples I post here -- I *do* have a reputation
to maintain though.

Somehow, I think the equivalent byte array version would be even
uglier. Anyone care to whip up a version for comparison, using the
detailed comments above?

JD

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