> If you've never heard of grep, glob, split, local/gmtime, unlink, > STDIN, ARGV, ... or seen a regular expression, it's all pretty > bewildering. Even if you have, there's all the chop/chomp/splice/... > cuteness to confuse.
This seems to be a recurring theme - regular expressions are hard. This is not my experience. After QBasic, Perl was the first language I learned, and regular expressions were a topic I found very easy (and there were plenty of topics I found hard, I'm sure). I wonder why it is some people find regexes such a mind-twister. +Pete -- A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. -- Samuel Johnson
