Timeline for What can / should be done with regular expressions? [closed]
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| Jul 12, 2015 at 0:27 | history | closed | Ixrec gnat durron597 CommunityBot | Needs more focus | |
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| Jun 5, 2011 at 2:23 | vote | accept | Click Upvote | ||
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| May 8, 2011 at 13:30 | comment | added | user1249 | Basically you don't want to use regular expressions when you want to use an if in it. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 12:47 | answer | added | F'x | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 9:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/67154666563186688 | ||
| May 8, 2011 at 8:41 | comment | added | Ingo | There is only one thing you can do with regular expressions: recognize words of regular languages. It's that easy. For this reason it is a must for a programmer to have some notion of the language classes and to be able to identify regular languages. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 6:19 | answer | added | Carson63000 | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 5:59 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | Required quote: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. (but see codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/… for context) | |
| May 8, 2011 at 5:30 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 5:26 | answer | added | Cervo | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 5:26 | answer | added | Peter Rowell | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 5:06 | answer | added | ennuikiller | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 8, 2011 at 4:59 | history | asked | Click Upvote | CC BY-SA 3.0 |