In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use >regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems." --JWZ Regexes are good if you need a solution quickly, and you're not processing large amounts of data on a regular basis. (How large is large? When you're chewing through appreciable amounts of CPU time doing it.) Once you get to that point, it would be more efficient to hand-code your own state machine to do the parsing. Of course, doing it in an (even partially) interpreted language like Python or Perl would defeat the point... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
