It was suggested that I post this here. For those who read my blog,
please pardon the dupe.
I recently announced a new ColdFusion contest at my blog:
http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/6/11/Advanced-ColdFusion-Contest-Announced
This contest is open to anyone at all, and
Just as a reminder to CF-Talk readers, there is a Regular Expressions list on
House of Fusion where you can ask some of the coding questions that will come
up in this contest.
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/regex
In addition, I was the technical editor on a GREAT introductory book on
And just so it's clear - I'm more than cool with folks talking about
the contest. The point isn't to win the prizes - but more to attempt
to solve the problem,and to share your results with others. Then my
readers and I slowly pick apart the entries. ;) Seriously though - the
point is to share so
On that note, do you think some of the rules for the engine would need to be
something other than regular expressions?
Steve
And just so it's clear - I'm more than cool with folks talking about
the contest. The point isn't to win the prizes - but more to attempt
to solve the problem,and to
Sure. I'm not saying anything about the rules or how they are written.
You can have it use a web service. You can have it use a trained
monkey. Up to you. The main point of this exercise concerns
extensibility. Ie, how can I build an application that is easy to
update, or so easy that the
On Monday 12 June 2006 16:06, Steve Bryant wrote:
On that note, do you think some of the rules for the engine would need to
be something other than regular expressions?
I would imagine so.
You want to be able to say more complicated things, rather than just:
if (doICareAbout(this.name){
Having already built something exactly like this for anti-spam work, I can say
that just about every rule I have is a Regular Expression. The only rules that
aren't are the len(from), len(to), len(subject) rules.
The issue of Regular Expressions is control. How can you check if there are
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