From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: backreferences
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:42:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56208E5E.2030605@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABx2=D8-YiBxgAKTYPC2LgX4z=b-rEm0K8-x6rwrmRCrHk=SNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/15/2015 09:27 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a recovering Perl addict I cannot +1 this comment enough. Regular
> expressions are highly addictive and dangerous. But as Mikael points
> out it is extremely easy to write a regexp that is worse than worthless.
Indeed. When it goes wrong it can be a spectacular mess. I could never
abide the fact that sed doesn't have a confirm mode. There's 'regexxer'
that does. Still, what else than regex is there? Is there any avoiding it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-16 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-15 18:28 backreferences Ray Andrews
2015-10-15 23:16 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-16 1:16 ` backreferences Ray Andrews
2015-10-16 2:30 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-16 4:11 ` backreferences Mikael Magnusson
2015-10-16 4:27 ` backreferences Kurtis Rader
2015-10-16 5:42 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2015-10-16 5:05 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-16 5:28 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-16 5:46 ` backreferences Ray Andrews
2015-10-16 11:14 ` backreferences Peter Stephenson
2015-10-16 5:36 ` backreferences Ray Andrews
2015-10-16 12:35 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-16 16:37 ` backreferences Ray Andrews
2015-10-17 3:33 ` backreferences Bart Schaefer
2015-10-17 5:16 ` backreferences Ray Andrews
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