From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep.
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:09:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W4vZ+_hkPYL+sD7zFwmMoBPm1zez76pPQVDjARB4gR3oQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230303173856.B615421D37@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 12:39 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> > > # Yes, I have a warped sense of humour here.
> > > /^[JFMAMJJASOND][aeapauuuecoc][nbrrynlgptvc] [ 0123][0-9] / \
> ...
> > in particular, the original is easy to validate by just saying the
> > names of the month out loud as one scans the list.
>
> Some clients pay me to read code and find fault. It's a hard habit to
> break. ‘coc’ smells wrong. :-)
>
> A bit of vi's :map later...
>
> Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dcc
>
> The regexp works, of course, but in this case removing the redundancy
> would also fix the ‘fault’.
Ha! Good catch. I'd probably just write it as,
`(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)` which isn't much
longer than the original anyway.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-03 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-02 18:54 [COFF] " Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-02 19:23 ` [COFF] " Clem Cole
2023-03-02 19:38 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-02 23:01 ` Stuff Received
2023-03-02 23:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-03 1:08 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-03 2:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-03 3:34 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-02 21:53 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-03 1:05 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-03 3:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-03 3:53 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-03 13:47 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-03 19:26 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-03 10:59 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-03 13:11 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-03 13:42 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-03 19:19 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-04 10:15 ` [COFF] Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep.) Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-07 21:49 ` [COFF] " Tomasz Rola
2023-03-07 22:46 ` Tomasz Rola
2023-06-20 16:02 ` Michael Parson
2023-06-20 21:26 ` Tomasz Rola
2023-06-22 15:45 ` Michael Parson
2023-07-10 9:08 ` [COFF] Re: Reader, paper, tablet, phone (was: Re: Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep.)) Tomasz Rola
2023-03-03 16:12 ` [COFF] Re: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep Dave Horsfall
2023-03-03 17:13 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-03 17:38 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-03 19:09 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2023-03-03 19:36 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-04 10:26 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-03 19:06 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-03 19:31 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-04 10:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-06 10:01 ` Ed Bradford
2023-03-06 21:01 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-06 21:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-07 1:43 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-07 4:01 ` Ed Bradford
2023-03-07 11:39 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-07 18:31 ` [COFF] " Grant Taylor via COFF
2023-03-08 11:22 ` Ed Bradford
2023-03-07 16:14 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-07 17:34 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-07 18:33 ` [COFF] " Dan Cross
2023-03-07 4:19 ` Ed Bradford
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