From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T06:43:58+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions help

Hi --

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, phlip wrote:

>>>> should return
>>>> [hi, hello, hello world,hey,yo]
>
>> But this returns "hello world" as two entries, not one as required.
>
> The "should return" clause is not well-formed anyway...

On the (usually misappropriated, but hopefully not here) Occam's Razor
principle[1], I would refrain from positing that there's actually
supposed to be a comma between the second "hello" and "world", or that
the quotation marks that were removed to illustrate the results are
actually supposed to be reinstated as literals. We can wait for a
ruling from Vivek, though; he's now got just about every permutation
to choose from :-) (Including shellwords, thanks to Harry, and that of
course is the best. Or at least, if Occam is right, then Harry is
right :-)


David

[1] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/occamraz.html (yes, it's still "Link To
Something Other Than Wikipedia!" Week [barely])

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