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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Regular Expressions
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008091054510.61909@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88FBBEDA-3D60-4782-9C4B-43C64691BC35@humeweb.com>

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Andrew Hume wrote:

> i had concocted a massive RE that matched all the known spellings of 
> saddam hussein. (it was complicated, and there were many different 
> romanizations active at the time.)

Another neat test was to run it against all the variations of "Muammar 
Gaddafi" and its various Anglicised spellings.

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-09  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-31 22:57 Will Senn
2020-08-01  0:01 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01  0:36   ` Rob Pike
2020-08-01  0:53     ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01  1:31     ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01  1:39     ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01  2:33     ` Will Senn
2020-08-01  2:50       ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01  3:01         ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01  3:07     ` Will Senn
2020-08-01  4:31       ` Earl Baugh
2020-08-01  4:53         ` ron minnich
2020-08-01  5:48 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-01 13:31   ` Richard Salz
2020-08-01 13:43     ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-02  0:45   ` Christopher Browne
2020-08-09  1:00   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-08-09  1:15     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-08-09 23:53       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10  1:38         ` John Cowan
2020-08-01  0:00 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-01 21:12 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-09 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10  0:50   ` Rob Pike
2020-08-02  4:59 Rudi Blom

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