On 1/23/15 10:13 AM, jgpacker wrote:
I don't understand the insistence in using regexes as some kind of argument against semicolon lists.
A semicolon list is an extremely simple pattern.
Such a pattern can be easily parsed even WITHOUT regexes.

Me and other developers in this thread (Imagic, Friedrich, David, Dmitry, Marc) are trying to tell you semicolons are not a problem.
+1

competent languages provide simple mechanisms for splitting
strings on single characters. sometimes the function is even
called "split"

richard

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