[oak perl] Most Annoying Regex?

[David Fetter]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:23:40AM -0700, Tony Stubblebine wrote:
> I think the root problem is not that people write complicated
> regular expression, but that they write any regular expressions
> without tests or documentation. Even if your regex is simple, your
> data isn't. Here's a simple regex that crops up every place I work.

Excellent point re: tests & docs.  I contend that complicated regexes
make these things go from difficult and time-consuming to
un-bloody-likely to be done at all.

Cheers,
D
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