From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com>
>
> From: Sean Russell <ser / efn.org>
>
> > Sometimes I think that regular expressions are some of the most
> > complicated constructions in comp sci.
> 
> Thank you for that comment.
> 
> I think the same. And someone pointed out that because the
> notation is highly condensed or abbreviated (as in: data compression),
> the result is largely indistnguishable from random noise.

Bah.    :)

> I wish I were a regex guru, but there are so many other things
> to learn as well...

Beware.  If you do learn 'em, you will never settle for an editor
without full Version-8 regexp support.  (Any editor that doesn't
let you control 'greediness', you'll be like, Pfffft!!!  No way,
man.  :-)


Regards, 

/Bil{2}/