builtin regular expressions?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sat Sep 30 19:36:50 EDT 2006
In article <pan.2006.09.30.20.56.40.77304 at gmx.net>,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> In <efmgtt$q1m$1 at mlucom4.urz.uni-halle.de>, Mirco Wahab wrote:
>
> > I fail to see the benefit of a re-object, I consider these to
> > be just there because regexes aren't in the core language.
>
> One benefit is that it's an object. You can stuff it into a dictionary or
> give it as argument to a function.
More to the point:
You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand, AMEN!
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