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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.