re.match

[Fredrik Lundh]

> My experience with regular expressions is completely with the Unix tools
> that use them (ie. grep, awk, sed, vi...) and Perl.

for some reason, this guy reminds me of the radio announcer who
uttered "bob dylan, best known from travelling wilburys"...

(or maybe even the work of two of last year's ignobel winners ;-)

anyone who knows the slightest bit about the theory behind regular
expressions should know that beyond the fundamental AB, A|B, and
A* forms, there's no such thing as a regular expression standard.

everything else is either sugar, irregularities, or both.

and don't get me started on the "regular expressions should always
search for a match" nonsense...

Cheers /F