> I still don't touch regular expressions... They may be fast, but to > me they are just as much line noise as PERL... I can usually code a > partial "parser" faster than try to figure out an RE.
Yes, it seems to me that REs are a bit "hit and miss" - the only way to tell if you've got a RE "right" is by testing exhaustively - but you can never be sure.... They are fine for simple pattern matching though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
