Thus spoke Jorge Godoy (on 2006-09-30 17:50):
> Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I could make it shorter in Python as well. But for a newbie that haven't seen
> the docs for strings in Python I thought the terse version would be more
> interesting.
OK
> At least he'll see that there are methods to do what he wants already builtin
> with the language.
OK
>> sub print_message {
>> if (/^(track=)/ ){ print 'Your track is ' .substr($_, length $1)."\n"
>> }
...
> If I were writing in Perl I'd not use substr like this and would write code
> similar to the one the OP posted (i.e., /^track=(.*)/).
Right, I actually tried to match your example as close as I could
get and to use only *simple* Regexes (as stated below). What one
really would do (as you probably meant above) is sth. like:
sub print_message {
if (/^track="(.+?)"/ ){ print "Your track is $1\n" }
...
which has a "more complicated" regex that is usually
not understood easily by newbies.
>> OK, I do Perl and Python side by side and didn't reach
>> that point so far, maybe beause I read the Friedel-Book
>> ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/reviews.html )
>> sometimes and actually *like* the concept of regular expressions.
>
> I like them as well. I just don't see the need to use them everywhere. :-)
I like Python for its radically plain look, my
underlying feeling of Python is: "Pascal", whereas
Perl feels and tastes like "C" to me ;-)
Regards
Mirco
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