Not everyone knows how to tie his shoelaces.
One who doesn't tie his shoelaces doesn't mean he doesn't know how to do
it. ;)
Regular expressions are no more against the spirit of Pascal
than associative arrays (hash tables) or any other feature
that is added by using a unit.
http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=Regex%20vs%20Maintainability%20Graph
IMO, it's a nice read. Personally, I agree with many of points in this
article.
Of course regex is important and very useful. But it has its own
advantages and disadvantages, like everything else. There are situations
or conditions where some programmers prefer to use his own custom but
readable and maintainable parsing code over regex cryptic syntax.
-Bee-
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http://beeography.wordpress.com
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