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On 2013.05.23 11:58, Andrew Edwards-Adams wrote:
> Hi thanks for the reply Andrew, my first bit of code was heading in the right direction I was managing to pull out the usernames from the JSON, using REGEX.
It's also worth mentioning that regexes are almost always the wrong tool, especially for standardized formats like JSON. They can be very
useful when nothing saner will get the job done, but are a nasty mess with no real benefit otherwise.
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