Comments on: Regular Expressions http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/01/10/regular-expressions/ ...so google can index my head. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JWISA http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/01/10/regular-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-56582 JWISA Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:39:47 +0000 http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/01/10/regular-expressions/#comment-56582 As a perfect example, note that the dots in my regular expression, above, were munged to ellipses! Good blogging software can't even read these things! Just proves my point! As a perfect example, note that the dots in my regular expression, above, were munged to ellipses! Good blogging software can’t even read these things! Just proves my point!

]]> By: JWISA http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/01/10/regular-expressions/comment-page-1/#comment-56581 JWISA Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:34:43 +0000 http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/01/10/regular-expressions/#comment-56581 The wankers who solve every text problem with such arcane constructs, Bill, as regular expressions, instead of solid programming languages like Java, have a merry time of it, but hardly impress me. I mean, just try this "s/^\(..\). .\(.*\)er\(..\).* e\(.....\).*bl.\(.\) [^ ]* s\([c-u]*\).*cts\(.......\).*ke\(..\)[^m]*m\([^ ]*\).*/\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9/" on the sentence above. Certainly not self documenting, if you see what I mean!!! The wankers who solve every text problem with such arcane constructs, Bill, as regular expressions, instead of solid programming languages like Java, have a merry time of it, but hardly impress me.

I mean, just try this “s/^\(..\). .\(.*\)er\(..\).* e\(…..\).*bl.\(.\) [^ ]* s\([c-u]*\).*cts\(…….\).*ke\(..\)[^m]*m\([^ ]*\).*/\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9/” on the sentence above. Certainly not self documenting, if you see what I mean!!!

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