On Tue, May 16, 2006 4:22 pm, Jochem Maas wrote: > personally I would assume anyone who had been programming for 20 yrs > would have a reasonable understanding of regexps.
Nope. :-) I got WAY past 20 year mark before I even began to pretend to understand the minimal amount of regex I can do now. Most things complicated enough to need regex are too complicated to do with regex, if you know what I mean... There's a very narrow "band" of problems where I'm comfy with regex, really. Anything simpler than that is just a substr or explode. Anything more complicated, and I just don't want to try to maintain the mess of not-quite-random characters needed to make a so-called "pattern" and I'll find some other way to break the problem down into sub-problems. Those sub-problems might then be amenable to a reasonable regex, of course, but I'm just not gonna tackle it in one big messy pattern. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
