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Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern

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From	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject	Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern
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Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> wrote:

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> There's a quote by Brian Kernighan that ???Debugging is twice as hard as
> writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code
> as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to
> debug it.???

I believe one of Brooks' laws goes something like:

  "Writing the program takes the first 90% of the time,
   debugging the second 90%."

So, according to that it takes the same amount of time, but nine
times as long as you thought it would. (Based on his experience
with OS/360.)

-- glen

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need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Jimmy <jimmy_please@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-11 10:35 -0700
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 15:24 -0700
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2012-07-11 15:40 -0700
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-12 00:56 +0200
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 21:21 -0700
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Jimmy <jimmy_please@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-12 07:28 -0700
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-12 11:24 -0400
      Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-07-12 11:42 -0400
      Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-23 22:55 -0400
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-07-12 09:42 -0500
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-12 09:18 -0700
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-07-12 18:34 +0000
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-23 22:53 -0400
  Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-23 22:48 -0400
    Re: need regular expression to replace part of result based on a search pattern Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-25 17:37 -0400

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