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Re: Regular Expressions [message #24250 is a reply to message #15713]

Tue, 20 March 2001 04:39

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to analyse a byte array with more human-readible
> functions, than those beautiful regular expressions you guys brought up?
>
> Cheers,
> Pavel

Oh no! Pavel! That would mean to take all the fun out of it! Just
imagine IDL got rid of all the quirks we spend so much time musing
upon in this group. Wouldn't that be boring (and David would be out of
bread and butter, too). With regular expressions, it's a similar
thing: they are brain sport! Somewhere I read that people who train
their brain regularily have a better chance of avoiding dementia later
on. So, where's the weekly regular expression contest?

Cheers,

Martin

PS: As far as I know, emacs is nothing else than a smart and well
balanced collection of regular expressions ;-)

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		Re: Regular expressions By: Brian Jackel on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Regular expressions By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Regular expressions By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Regular Expressions By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 15 March 2001 16:09
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Wayne Landsman on Thu, 15 March 2001 19:24
		Re: Regular Expressions By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 16 March 2001 09:20
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 19 March 2001 13:52
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 20 March 2001 15:23
		Re: Regular Expressions By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 20 March 2001 15:28
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 20 March 2001 14:48
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Wayne Landsman on Tue, 20 March 2001 12:14
		Re: Regular Expressions By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 20 March 2001 04:39

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