[Princeton-pm] regex stuff

Jim Trocki trockij at arctic.org
Fri Sep 16 08:48:08 PDT 2005


On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, uber spaced wrote:

> Yeah, so yesterday (i think), Jeff wrote this regex on freenode #perl which
> took somebody several messages to decompose and translate to english some
> coaxing.
>
> Long story short, I wouldn't mind brushing up on regexes and going to the
> meeting with a couple of questions and listening to people talk about them.
>
> It also may be pretty interesting for people to bring in examples of ugly,
> misleading, complex etc. examples of regexes they've seen and have some
> discussions.
>
> What do you guys think?

sounds like fun! i'd certainly be interested in participating in that.

ora has a book devoted to perl regexps, were you aware of that resource?

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/


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