From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T19:34:54+09:00
Subject: About Regular Expressions

Lately there have been a bunch of posts on this list about regular
expressions in Ruby and people seem to cry wolf whenever they don't get
them quite right.  By crying wolf here I mean that they suspect a bug.
That's most often the same as blaming core-dumps on the operating
system.  It's time that people try to reason about what they've actually
written and look at the documentation (which may be too limited?) before
complaining here.

I am not suggesting that these question stop entirely, but I request
that they be well thought out before.  Still, there seems to be a need
for a FAQ or similar, covering regular expression basics and common
pitfalls - perhaps even including common idioms and uses in Ruby.

I don't have time for this myself at the moment, so is anyone else up
for the task?
	nikolai


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