Regular expression use

[Bert Heymans]

Nick,

In "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl your
question is answered in the first 6 chapters. Seriously, that's what
it takes. It's a really good book.

Cheers

Bert

On Aug 24, 12:58 pm, n... at cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
> For reasons that I won't explain, as they are too complicated
> and not terribly relevant, I am interested in discovering what
> people actually use regular expressions for.  Not the subject
> domain, but the construction of the regular expressions.
>
> I know about computer scientists and parsing, and I know about
> the use of relatively simple ones for things like extracting
> HTML links from Web pages.  But I don't have much feel for the
> (probably rare but difficult) uses of more complex ones for
> other purposes.  I have heard of several such uses, but don't
> have an overall idea of what is going on.
>
> Any pointers appreciated, to more-or-less anything.
>
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.