From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T10:14:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about text parsing

Hi --

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, 7stud -- wrote:

> Stephen Beard wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick and thorough replies. They all look great.
>>
>> I am so terrible with regular expressions. Those links look like a good
>> place to go to improve, thanks Rob.
>
> Always look to a string method first.  split() rules the world, and
> you've made good use of it.

String method isn't the opposite of regular expression, though. It's
important to understand regexes to use split (as well as scan and
(g)sub) effectively.


David

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