On 10/2/2020 10:49 PM, David Carlson wrote:
....... including (especially,
with examples) exactly what regex means to those of us that went to school
before that term existed,.........
ROFLOL ---- in which case you are older than I am and I'm in my mid 70's
It's not exactly a new term, dates to the 50's in mathematics. OK, math
tends to run ahead of application, but unix and it's standard library
dates to the late 70's and the "standard library of utilities" began
with the find/mach replace utilities using "regular expressions" to
express what was to be matched. "Regex" is simply the usual abbreviation.
The earliest practical use with computers would have been late 60's (in
QED), just after my uni days. But SNOBOL used its own matching strings
so didn't make a comeback till unix.
Michael
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