From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: The Leaning Toothpicks of Pisa <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat "\b" properly
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0D8FF5.2030606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208A497494E@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
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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