[Linux] Regular expressions

[Dean Benson]

I'm not a coder in any respect.  Last time I did any coding I was maybe 14
or 15 and that was BASIC in my C= bbs days ... :)

As I re-read the sections it sinks in a little more.  I guess I need to find
more examples to look at so I'm going to buy the book this week from
bookpool.  Thanks for the input!!

Dean

Heh -- for once a RTFM is appropriate:o)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jones" <tim@timjones.com>
To: <linux@flux.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Linux] Regular expressions


> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:18:40PM -0400, Nick Seidenman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you are familiar with the regular expressions that
grep/egrep/fgrep/sed/awk
> use, then you already know a good chunk of Perl's REs.  Perl adds quite a
bit
> to it.
>
> And you don't have to know every little detail in order for it to be
> useful.  I know of the top of my head maybe 55-60% of what REs can do
> in Perl, and I get by pretty nice.  I have to look up something once
> in a while, but that's no crime.
>
> Regular expressions are also useful in Python
> (see the 're', 'regex', 'regsub' modules), and even Java (if you
> have the com.oroinc.OroMatcher libraries, which are wonderful
> (even though Oro, Inc. the company died years ago).
>
> Tim
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