On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:50:11AM -0500, Perl Diety wrote: > "...are easy and IMO, not interesting..." > > juxtapositioned with > > ", but I never found one..." > > Vern or Vernette, doesn't this imply that either: > > (a) You didn't look very hard, since being easy, they should also > be easy to find > > or > > (b) They are not so easy?
or (c) you quoted out of context and misunderstood the original post. "...regexes that match themselves _and also other strings_ are easy and IMO, not interesting..." [my emph] "...I was looking for a regex matching itself - _and nothing but itself_, ... but I never found one." [my emph] The two phrases which you quoted are describing _different_ classes of regular expressions. Ronald
