For reasons that I won't explain, as they are too complicated and not terribly relevant, I am interested in discovering what people actually use regular expressions for. Not the subject domain, but the construction of the regular expressions.
I know about computer scientists and parsing, and I know about the use of relatively simple ones for things like extracting HTML links from Web pages. But I don't have much feel for the (probably rare but difficult) uses of more complex ones for other purposes. I have heard of several such uses, but don't have an overall idea of what is going on. Any pointers appreciated, to more-or-less anything. Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
