On Fri, 04 May 2007 21:37:21 -0500, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -dark corners of the regexp engine...especially back-references > if you've never used them before; and the power of the ":s" > command, along with the "\=" replacement for expression evaluation. I would say that if there's one single thing everyone should do to become a power user it is to become comfortable with regular expressions. Many tasks that might take hours by hand become no more than a couple of minutes work with Vim, sed or Perl and a suitable regular expression. Many people are deterred by the jumble of punctuation that makes regular expressions look like line noise, but they're well worth learning. The only disadvantage of regular expressions is that once you've learned to use them you tend to look scathingly at anything that doesn't provide them as a core feature. -- Matthew Winn
