In <3230590867699769.wa.markmzelden....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/06/2013 at 08:28 AM, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> said:
>On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:37:18 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) ><shmuel+...@patriot.net> wrote: >>In <1877842424347351.wa.markmzelden....@listserv.ua.edu>, on >>02/05/2013 >> at 01:48 PM, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> said: >> >>>I've even used Doug Nadel's FINDRX macro a few times, but admit I >>>still don't really "get" regular expressions (I'm sure if I used *nix >>>more I would). >> >>Thin of a regex as a SNOBOL pattern. >> >The only pattern I know about snowball is when I throw one at a >window and it splatters. :-) Wouldn't that have to be an ICEBOL? A SPITBOL wouldn't break the window. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN