Re: [Hampshire] Online regex

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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To: John Hunt
CC: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Online regex
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:35:08 +1100 (+1100), John Hunt wrote:
> > regexp's aren't difficult,
>
> No, they shouldn't be difficult, but they never seem to work for me as
> they should. </rant>


Sounds like a talk might be helpfule :-)

> It's probably just something to do with php. I ought to learn them
> properly really as it'd help for stuff like grep/find etc.


Hmm, I seem to recall having to put in silly levels of escaping in PHP
with backslashes. And then twice as many in the replacement string.
That was about 6-7 years ago though.

Adrian
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