Regular expressions

[Dan Sommers]

On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:04:23 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:

> On 11/03/2015 05:33 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote:
>> I consider regexs more fundemental.  One need not even be a programmer
>> to use them: consider grep, sed, a zillion editors, database query 
>> languages, etc.
> 
> Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but
> it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions ...

Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular
expressions.

Dan