Re: Pattern matching question

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. So they look familiar, but at some unexpected times the same
regexp does just very slightly different things in different programs:
IOW you have to check each time how regexps works for the software you
are using _now_.


Best regards,
Tony.
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