[Linux] Regular expressions

Susan Ottwell sottwell@hotmail.com
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:25:02 GMT


Perl didn't invent regular expressions...grep and its ilk have used them for 
more years than even I can remember.  Most generic books on Linux devote at 
least a few pages to these.

Susan Ottwell
TechBox
Netanya, Israel

>From: Nick Seidenman <nicks@argate.net>
>Reply-To: Nick Seidenman <nicks@argate.net>
>To: Dean Benson <morbid69@bellsouth.net>
>CC: Sanford Langbart <langbart@email.broward.cc.fl.us>, linux@flux.org
>Subject: Re: [Linux] Regular expressions
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:18:40 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dean Benson wrote:
>
> > I have had several people drop that info to me.  I was curious, though.  
>Is
> > it geared for someone that already has an advanced understanding of perl 
>or
> > would the complete moron (like me) be comfortable with it?
>
>Don't need to be conversant in perl.  It's a good treatise on REs with
>lots of practical information and examples.
>
>nick
>
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