[TriLUG] A curious regular expression

Phillip Rhodes mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk
Mon Apr 9 23:57:29 EDT 2007


T. Bryan wrote:
> Gosh, I killed 20 minutes on this e-mail.  Next time I'll delete the thread 
> *without* a brief scan to see if any interesting tangents popped up.  ;-)
>
>   
This thread reminds me of the old saw (attributed, IIRC to Jamie Zawinski):

Sometimes, when confronted with a problem, a programmer thinks to himself:
"I know, I'll use regular expressions."  Now he has two problems.


TTYL,


Phil

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