As a longtime user and lover of Perl, I have to disagree with your assessment of Java's regex support. While it may be true that dealing with the Pattern object is a real pain, in the 1.4 JDKs they have also added to the String object .matches(), .split(), and other handy methods for dealing with regular expressions. Though you may still have your qualms about writing this type of code in Java (I for one abhor the hoops one has to jump through to get certain metacharacters properly quoted and escaped), it's not quite as bad as you make it seem. :-)

Update: oooh, downvotes! Apparently the monks don't like posts that are anything less than completely critical of Java, even when they are correcting an error of misunderstanding, and point out something else bad about Java. Very nice. Sorry for the whining. 8^\

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Calling perl from java by revdiablo
in thread Calling perl from java by fletcher_the_dog

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