[Cialug] some truth to that

[kristau]

Sounds like we have a topic for tomorrow's meeting: REGEX-FU!


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:06 PM, 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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