From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2010-09-11T12:40:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's regex

On Sep 10, 10:48 pm, Young Wah <rubyv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, regular expression support is typically built into only
> scripting languages,
> such as Ruby, Perl, and awk. This is a shame: regular expressions,
> although cryptic,
> are a powerful tool for working with text. And having them built in,
> rather than tacked
> on through a library interface, makes a big difference.
>
> The above statement is in the book "Programming Ruby" the second edition.
> Why the author said "this is a shame"? I don't understand well. Thanks.
>
> Regards.

I see that language was carried along into the second edition.  I take
the authors' bemoan the fact that you can't conveniently use regex's
in command-line expressions or C++ programs AFAIK, etc.  Perhaps if
there were stand-alone regex packages,  then possibly regex's could be
integrated into other packages.

On the other hand,  the authors may have totally different things in
mind.

HTH,
Richard