[Tallahassee-pm] Back on the wagon

[Tillman, James]

Heh, heh.  Welcome back, errant Jedi knight!  We won't fault you for falling
to the dark side.
 
By the way:  PHP has added Perl5-compliant regular expressions to the
language, so now you can feel intimidated in both languages!
 
Frankly, PHP borrows so much from Perl's syntax and features, it should be
an easy transition from one to the other.  I've actually learned PHP by
fixing other people's bugs, never having cracked a book on it.
 
There's a great book from O'Reilly called "Mastering Regular Expressions".
I'd recommend getting a trial subscription to O'Reilly Safari (if you
haven't already), and read that book.  You can use RegExps in many places,
including many popular programmer's text editors, in Java (there are now 3
implementations in Java), Javascript on the client-side of all major web
browsers, and God-only-knows-where-else.  Once you learn 'em, you'll wonder
how you ever did without 'em.
 
jpt
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Tyre [mailto:phillip.tyre at fcul.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:58 PM
To: tallahassee-pm at mail.pm.org
Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Back on the wagon


These last few weeks have seen me do some more light PHP coding, but
yesterday, I actually broke down and worked in Perl some. To be honest, it's
been a very long time since I created a program in Perl, but it just seemed
the best option. It's just a little program that opens up a DBI connection,
does some work, and then shuts down (It's going in a cron job once tested
fully), but I'm rather proud of how quickly I got back up to speed and
produced it.
 
I also realize that when it comes to regular expressions in Perl, I'm still
a weenie who can't make the plunge to using them comfortably.  Maybe it's
just lack of experience, but I always feel like I really don't know what I'm
doing when I use them. For some reason I'm just intimidated by regular
expressions, and I dunno why.
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