Re: [FWP] What is regex

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:21 -0400 06/19/1999, Bill Jones wrote:
>
>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.

And... (thusly) a regex often forms the basis of _many_ of the really 
cool and esoteric tricks one can play with Perl.

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