From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T21:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: About Regular Expressions

* Brian Schr�der <ruby@brian-schroeder.de> [Nov 18, 2004 13:20]:
> > 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.

> There are lots of regexp tutorials on the web. To me it does not seem
> reasonable to duplicate this effort. Just do a quick google for
> regular expression and you get a dozen hits.

Yet people direct their questions to this mailing-list.

> http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is a good introductory text. The
> only thing missing on this site is a reference to ruby. Maybe if
> enough people bug him about it, he will include it ;). I already asked
> him to include ruby in the list of languages that support regexps.

I'd say its so-so at best.  Still, I know that there are a lot of
resources, but no one seems to find them (or try to for that matter).
Perhaps I should have mentioned that the idea was that something was
going to go to ruby-doc.org for easy reference.

> PS: Your homepage is broken. (And it uses php ;) (Just like some of
> mine do, I have to admit ;)

Yeah, the providers kind of messed up royally.  I haven't had time to
fix it, nor move to Rails or something similar.   In any case, the
database was lost in a hard drive failure on the provider's server,
which would make the page very boring even if it was working.
	nikolai

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