[Tutor] Amazing power of Regular Expressions...

[Jonathon Sisson]

Ahh, sorry, sorry.  I haven't been able to locate the thread that I read 
that summarized passage from, so I can't say who exactly said all of that...

Nice quote on C/C++...made me laugh.

Jonathon

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Jonathon Sisson" <sisson.j at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> of them they're addicting... As Alan Gauld stated in another thread 
>> (I'm
>> pretty sure it was Alan): You'll get to the point that you want to 
>> use
>> (regular expressions) all the time, even if they aren't the right 
>> tool
> 
> Nope, it wasn't me, maybe Danny.
> 
> But I sure agree with it. The problem with Regex is that they can
> be just a bit too powerful. To cite another programming proverb,
> this time by Bjarne Stroustrup I think:
> 
> "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
> C++ makes it  harder, but when you do,
> it blows away your whole leg."
> 
> Regex can be like that too.
> 
>> Regular Expressions:  learn them, love them, use them...but put the
>> sword down if a pen can handle the job better.
> 
> A great summary.
>