On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 03:28:23PM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:13:59 -0500
> Brian Katzung <bri...@kappacs.com> wrote:
> > That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure you're accomplishing
> > your stated goals. Consider that the RE /^\s*test\s*$/ is 14
> > characters and you've coded it in 91 non-white-space characters (650%
> > of the original size).
> The difference is between writing machine code and writing assembler.
> The goal is not to create readable REs but to make it easier to create
> them.
The difference is also between getting the regex right or not. The
line-noise version above is case sensitive, unlike the OP's example.
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