[Cialug] December RegEx Class Topics Survey

[Scott Yates]

They ARE pretty spiffy, and mine already has holes.......

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:51 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps we should issue these shirts after the presentation?
>
> http://shop.xkcd.com/products/i-know-regular-expressions
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > Extra points for automating the solve!  lol
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:22 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > that's evil
> > >
> > > use this to solve https://github.com/asciimoo/exrex
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Here is another cool site I recently came across:
> > > >
> > > > http://regexcrossword.com/
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:56 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Tim,
> > > > >
> > > > > You are not alone in that.  For some things, I benefit a lot from a
> > > fresh
> > > > > review every few years.  For example, how many people really
> remember
> > > all
> > > > > of the options on ls, let alone across different platforms?
> > > > >
> > > > > Another wrinkle, scintilla-derived editors, which include scite,
> > > > Notepad++,
> > > > > and Programmer's Notepad use a non-standard subset of what most
> would
> > > > call
> > > > > a full regex implementation, see
> > > > >
> > http://www.pnotepad.org/docs/search/regular_expressions/#restrictions
> > > > >
> > > > > It that always surprises me is how very differently people can
> > approach
> > > > the
> > > > > same simple RegEx problem, too.  Looking forward to having people
> > point
> > > > out
> > > > > better ways of doing things in the meeting.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Tim Wilson <
> > tim_linux at wilson-home.com
> > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I would say 1 and 2.  Even some of the more "basic" stuff might
> not
> > > be
> > > > > > known to everyone.  I've dabbled with RegEx for several years,
> > > > including
> > > > > > some more advanced expressions, and I'm sure there's basic stuff
> I
> > > > don't
> > > > > > know.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 9:44 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It all sounds good to me. Perhaps try to highlight what is and
> is
> > > not
> > > > > > > common across implementations?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:23 PM, chris rheinherren <
> > > > > > > c.rheinherren at gmail.com>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Intro and basic concepts.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Scott Yates <
> > > Scott at yatesframe.com
> > > > >
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Personally, i'd like to see the intermediate topics.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:24 PM, jim kraai <
> > > jimgkraai at gmail.com>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > What would you like to see?
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > 1. Intro and basic concepts
> > > > > > > > > > 2. Intermediate: lookahead/around/etc.
> > > > > > > > > > 3. Intermediate: using procedural functions in replace
> > > > > > > > > > 4. Writing for maintainability
> > > > > > > > > > 5. Q&A, a.k.a stump the chump
> > > > > > > > > > 6. Advanced: unicode, recursion, other recent Perl
> > additions
> > > > > > > > > > 7. XRegExp, js only (google it, it's sweet)
> > > > > > > > > > 8. Bragging rights, BYO examples and display/explain
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Note there are many implementations, and sed's feature
> set
> > !=
> > > > > > perl's
> > > > > > > !=
> > > > > > > > > > javascript's != ... There are there are many javascript
> > > > > > > > implementations,
> > > > > > > > > > about the same as the number of web browsers.  I'm
> inclined
> > > to
> > > > > use
> > > > > > a
> > > > > > > > > subset
> > > > > > > > > > of the implementation in latest Chrome for ease of
> > > > demonstration.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Reply on list or directly to let me know.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > --jim
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