In a bout of severe head trauma induced by lack of sleep and large doses of caffeine, I took a whole new approach to regexing -- fridge code regexing (pp.) as a recursive definition:

regexfun.gif (149K) (Animated GIF, sorry PNG's don't have animation.) Designed in GIMP.

Please don't hold the useless use of .* ^ and $ against me, I had to include them somewhere!

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<xmp> <mcm> you have too much free time...
<me> umm... it just occured to me that I meant "intelligible"
<me> mcm: hehe, I do?
<me> I was thinking that exact thing when I was doing that
<-- Evanidus has quit ("brb")
<me> I was like "I bet some one is going to say 'You have too much free time on your hands'."
<mcm> hehe...
<me> no, I'm just temporarily insomniac...

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