Re: A Split Question

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Luke Bakken wrote:

> > > > Unpack works well with fixed format data like this.
> > >
> > > Why would you use unpack when this can be easily split apart with a regex?
> > > I'd think unpack would be overkill!
>
> why is it overkill any more that a regex?

Are you saying we should be using unpack rather than regular expressions?

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