You mean you looked at, even used the RegExps in C# and did not throw up? Man you have a good stomach!

A global match that gives you a data structure five levels deep made of five different types of objects? Replacement that's either a completely static string or a "reference to a function" (for .Net guys "a delegate") that has to be defined somewhere far off because C# doesn't support unnamed functions/blocks? I've seen several examples in C# that implemented something like s{%(\w+)%}{$hash{$1}}g;. None of them was shorter than some twenty lines and each and every one of them was ugly and hard to understand. Shame I don't have the book here.

I think that if I'll continue to be forced to "work" in C# I'll end up wrapping the real Perl regexps in a .Net class whose design might not be so "clean OO", but will be easier to use. Like I did with VB.

Jenda
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
   -- P. Simon in Mrs. Robinson

In reply to Re^2: Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by Jenda
in thread Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by Discipulus

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