Results not quite what I expected

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <ua5y6.10204$SB2.1038757 at ruti.visi.com>,
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>In article <mailman.986239804.14212.python-list at python.org>, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
>>
>> I tried your suggestion, and I am close, but not quite.  What
>> is happening with the number split?
>
>Ripping off somebody's apt observation:
>
>  A programmer has a problem.  He decides to use a regular
>  expression.  Now he has two problems.  :)

That's a paraphrase and unattributed.  Here's the correct version, from
my quotefile:

    'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
    regular expressions".  Now they have two problems.'  --Jamie Zawinski, 
    comp.lang.emacs
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