Learning Regex (Was: Is it just me, or is there a reason for it?)

[Steve Lamb]

On 08/15/2010 04:45 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>           This assumes your writing code. I looked at the man page. Regex
> is loaded with Ubuntu 10.04 it appears so we all have it.  I have not
> learned to use regex because I do not write much code any more. Never
> did make a living doing code.

     No, Karl, it presumes you do any manipulation or parsing of text.  Regex 
is about text, not about code.

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