On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:47 PM Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Never use a cannon as a fly swatter. > A regular expression is heavy artillery. > A for-loop will do just fine: smaller, simpler, faster, land ess > dependencies: > A +100 to Michael's reply. Before falling in love with Python ~15 years ago I used Perl for everything that a POSIX shell couldn't handle but which didn't need the performance provided by C, C++, etc. When I started using Python I was annoyed that using regexps required more effort. Then I realized that a lot of the time I was using a regexp was not robust. That is, likely to fail in unexpected ways. A regexp is inherently designed to match characters (i.e., Unicode code points) and not bytes. Even if the locale is ASCII or a ISO 8859 variant. You should not be using it to match individual bytes unless you have explicitly set the locale to a single-byte locale (e.g., "C" or "POSIX"). -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
