[Cialug] some truth to that

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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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