[TriLUG] A curious regular expression

[burnett at pobox.com]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

> 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.

More recently there's the appearance of regular expressions in the XKCD 
webcomic:

http://xkcd.com/c208.html

Steve B / badger at trilug