[Cialug] December RegEx Class Topics Survey

[jim kraai]

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
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Cialug mailing list
> > > > > Cialug at cialug.org
> > > > > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> > > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Cialug mailing list
> > > > Cialug at cialug.org
> > > > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Cialug mailing list
> > > Cialug at cialug.org
> > > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tired programmer
> > Coding late into the night
> > The core dump follows
> > _______________________________________________
> > Cialug mailing list
> > Cialug at cialug.org
> > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tim
> Required reading: http://bccplease.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>