I'm a great fan of regexp because it has great power and flexibility. if you don't like it I suggest you to read "Mastering Regular Expressions". http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/
Yes, sometimes it might be hard to understand bites you but if you use it correctly, it works great. On 18 Dec 2006 20:25:32 -0800, Asper Faner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to always have hard time understaing how this regular expression > works, especially how on earth do people bring it up as part of > computer programming language. Natural language processing seems not > enough to explain by the way. Why no eliminate it ? > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list