Pete-

Friday, December 28, 2012, 9:26:29 AM, you wrote:

> Seriously though, I have this feeling that matchText and matchChunk are
> potentially very useful tools if only I could understand the syntax of
> regular expressions.  I've been to both web references mentioned in
> the dictionary and have a really hard time understanding them.

I usually think of regex as a write-only programming language. It's
quite powerful, especially when you start dealing with things like
lazy vs greedy processing, but it's really painful to try to read a
regex string <insert arbitrary time period here> later.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwie...@ahsoftware.net


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