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* Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
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@ 2009-11-25 19:58             ` Dave Korn
  2009-11-25 20:30               ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2009-11-25 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Leaning Toothpicks of Pisa

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape> wrote on Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:16:22 -0700:

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know,
> I'll use regular expressions.”  Now they have two problems.

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:

> pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions.

  Now you have *three* problems(*).

    cheers,
      DaveK

-- 
(*)  - And I'm being pretty kind to Perl(**) by only counting it as /one/ problem.
(**) - Perl: it's not so much a programming language, more a syndrome.

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* Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
  2009-11-25 19:58             ` Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly Dave Korn
@ 2009-11-25 20:30               ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2009-11-25 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Nov 25 20:13, Dave Korn wrote:
> (**) - Perl: it's not so much a programming language, more a syndrome.

LOL


Corinna

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