8 Dec
2011
8 Dec
'11
1:03 p.m.
On 12/07/2011 08:14 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I don't really understand why any techie dislikes
it, TBH. It is
/vastly/ easier than, say, learning to understand how Unix wildcards
work, let alone regular expressions or something - both things which
I've not yet mastered after more than 20y of effort.
UNIX shell wildcards? A question mark matches any single character,
an asterisk matches any number of any characters. What's so tough about
that?
Regexps aren't quite that simple, but I have a hard time believing
anyone couldn't get the general idea after maybe ten minutes. If you
want to learn that stuff, contact me offlist and I'll be happy to help.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA