[Novalug] regex writer

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Thu Jun 26 18:13:28 EDT 2014


speaking from experience as a long-time (almost 15 years) 
Perl-programmer-slash-web-developer-turned-sysadmin, I follow the Igor 
school of regex development (and I think most folks do).

William Sutton

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, shawn wilson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:18 PM, James Ewing Cottrell, III
> <jecottrell3@comcast.net> wrote:
>> What you are talking about is an AI program. Furthermore, you are trying to automate a Trivial Process, much like trying to invent a machine that will automatically tie your shoes. It's Just Not Worth It.
>>
>> Finally, are you trying to Undermine your own Job Security?
>>
>> We, the United Brotherhood of Regular Expressions resent your encroachment into our Union Contracts.
>>
>
> Ha, I like undermining my own job security (that kinda gives me job security) :)
>
> Also, this is *really* possible - I've used this:
> http://search.cpan.org/~dland/Regexp-Assemble-0.35/Assemble.pm
> to some success, but it's only half done and only gets me half way to
> where I want and would need much more work.
>
> I just figured that since this is a common task, someone would have a
> utility to do this.
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