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Subject: Re: Regular expressions
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:

> Yes yes, I know that regexes aren't the only tool in my tool box, but
> *right now* I want to learn how to use regexes.

I'll gently suggest this isn't a particularly good forum to do so.

Learn them with a tool like <URL:http://www.regexr.com/> and a tutorial
<URL:http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/wcbrown/regexp/RegexpTutorial.html> or
something longer.

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