[prog] On Perl

[Michelle Murrain]

At 8:44 PM -0700 10/11/02, kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net wrote:
>Just wanted to ask the more experieced if it is necessary to 
>memorize all the regex syntax. My understanding is if I can do it 
>from Learning Perl it will suffice and the Programming Perl's regex 
>will come in handy over the years of usage.

Memorize Regex syntax????? Gosh no. I code in perl everyday, and I've 
never memorized syntax. you learn it over time, but I have the 
O'Reilly book (well worth it) "Mastering Regular Expressions" that is 
well dogeared and bookmarked and I use it all the time.

I also happen to be one of those types that only uses regexes when 
needed, as opposed to some people, who use them just because they 
can. It's my personal preference. I like my code to be reasonable for 
me and others to read. I have a hard enough time remembering what I 
was thinking when I coded something, if I had to retranslate some 
regex to figure out what I was doing, that just adds to the time.
-- 
.Michelle

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