[Cialug] some truth to that

[Don Ellis]

I just looked up the email regex mentioned by Matthew in the quote from
5/20.

In Ch7, they develop a regex that tops out at 4,724 bytes. The one in
Appendix B is 6,598 bytes after whitespace and comments are removed, but
runs faster than the one in Ch7. The whole regex is shown on one page, so
you can type it in yourself (could probably just copy and paste it). ;-)
Looks like a page full of static.

Maybe time for me to get a post-first edition of this book...

--Don Ellis


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> It looks like regex is the topic of the day at O'reolly. Regex ebooks are
> half off if you use coupon code 'deal'
> http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zlpj4mpiluanuqsiofspfv7q36j4e6amahg8uje0
>
> I like their books because they are DRM free and you get updates for free.
>
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2014-05-20 at 13:53:33 Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > > Back on topic, I read the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by
> > > Friedl and it greatly changed my outlook on Regex.
> >
> > That is one of the very few books that i keep multiple editions of. The
> > first edition had the regex for matching an e-mail address. That
> > particular regex is about 6 1/2 kilobytes in size and is an excellent
> > example of when *not* to use regex to solve a problem.
> >
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