Re: [FWP] What is regex

[Roderick Carlson <guiloui@hotmail.com>]

crystal
thanks very much


>From: "Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>
>Reply-To: "Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>
>To: fwp@technofile.org
>Subject: Re: [FWP] What is regex
>Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:21:38 -0400
>
> >From: Roderick Carlson <guiloui@hotmail.com>
> >
>
> > As an extreme newbie,
> >
> > What is a regex?
> >
>
>
>A RegEx (RE or regular expression) is the ability of a
>language (say perl for example) to shorten what
>would be a usually much longer string manipulation
>command into short 'equations', so to speak.
>
>So, instead of saying, say in C:
>
>if ((substr(data,0,4)) == "JAPH") {
>    /* Do stuff... */
>}
>
>
>In perl (or any RE aware language) one could say:
>
>do stuff() if /'JAPH'/;
>
>
>Clearer?
>-Sneex-  :]
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