Hi Shlomi,
thanks for explaining the difference between Perl's and formal regular
expressions (and for the rest of your post). I actually do know what
formal regular expressions are, but your explanation was illuminating
even if you didn't think my jokes were funny.
I do just want to point out that the blog post you dug up (I did too!)
was Simon's, not mine.
-Mike
On 2/10/14 3:06 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm joining this thread late.
>
> First of all I'd like to note that I found the original article (maybe it's
> more of a blog post) on O'ReillyNet, which I only skimmed, to be mostly
> factual, and correct and I'm saying this as an active Perl programmer and
> contributor to the Perl ecosystem (including the Perl core and
> CPAN - https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF ) who knows a little about the
> proper way to do things and been helping or trying to help people with their
> Perl problems on various Perl-specific forums.
>
> Otherwise, I believe your message was information and insightful. Some nitpicks.
>
