[Cialug] some truth to that

[jim kraai]

wow, that came out sounding soooooo wrong.  what i meant was that this
group already knows so much more than i do in the sysadmin arena, how could
i teach you anything on this subject?


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:40 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm out with the face/lung crud
>
> i looked over my old notes on the regex class i used to teach, can't
> imagine how it'd be useful for CIALUG
>
> other than grepping logs, where do sysadmins get a lot of use out of
> regexes?
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:59 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > __
>> > Daniel A. Ramaley
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