The Regex Story

[Dotan Cohen]

> I would have agreed with you if someone were to make the statement
> until a few weeks ago; somehow in the last week or so, the mood about
> regex seems to has shifted to "regex is not suitable for anything"
> type of mood. As soon as someone (OP or not) proposed a regex
> solution, someone else would retort with don't use regex use
> string-builtins or pyparsing. It appears that the group has developed
> some sense of regexphobia; some people pushes using string builtins
> for moderately complex requirement and suggested pyparsing for not-so
> complex need and that keeps shrinking regex sweet spot. But that's
> just my inherently subjective observation.
>

Isn't that a core feature of a high-level language such as Python?
Providing the tools to perform common or difficult tasks easily
thought built in functions?

I am hard pressed to think of a situation in which a regex is
preferable to a built-in function.

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Dotan Cohen

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