Nick, In "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl your question is answered in the first 6 chapters. Seriously, that's what it takes. It's a really good book.
Cheers Bert On Aug 24, 12:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Maclaren) wrote: > 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
