Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 10:45:18 AM, Oliver wrote:
> Ok, you might say, just don't use them. I was just wondering... I know you
> can do a LOT of nice things with regexps, so I'd really like to use them in
> some way ;)
In 'merica we have a saying for this. "Give a child a hammer and
everything looks like a nail." Not all problems are solved with a particular
tool. Also something that you may be overlooking is that the regexps aren't
only implemented in the filters and the macros but also the search strings.
For someone, like me, who keeps large databases of mail, having regexps to
search through that is yet another good example of regexps (YAGEOR). I don't
know if you have such a database, but if you do then you may, from time to
time, have use for it.
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