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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... |
| Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:31:30 -0400 |
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On 3/11/2013 6:00 PM, Joshua Cranmer đ§ wrote:
> [...]
> ([()<>,:;@])|(?:[^\\"]|\\.)*|\[(?:[^\\\]]|\\.)*\]|(?:\\.|[^
> \t\r\n()<>,:;@["])+
>
> That is an example of a production regular expression I use specifically
> for tokenizing. [...]
As Ed Post noted nearly thirty years ago:
It has been observed that a TECO command sequence
more closely resembles transmission line noise
than readable text.
-- "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"
Nobody I know of uses TECO any more, but regexes satisfy
people's craving for gibberish.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
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regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru - 2013-03-10 02:27 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-09 21:33 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-09 21:00 -0600
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2013-03-09 23:33 -0600
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-10 10:27 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-10 12:55 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 07:57 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-10 22:39 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 15:54 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:03 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 17:00 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 18:31 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 18:40 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 21:39 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-11 23:06 +0000
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer đ§ <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 20:56 -0500
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 22:06 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-12 09:30 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 16:24 -0700
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:08 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 16:59 -0400
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 22:24 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:00 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-13 08:07 +0100
Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-10 11:16 -0700
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