Regular expressions

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wednesday 04 November 2015 13:55, Dan Sommers wrote:

> 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.

I don't even know what grep stands for. 

But I think what Michael may mean is that if you "grep foo", no regex magic 
takes place since "foo" contains no metacharacters.




-- 
Steven