I'm just learning Perl, but have had to deal with regexps in PHP. One thing I can definitely recommend is the Regex Coach. Once they start learning the rules for regular expressions, they'll want to test it out, and the Coach gives them something fun to work with. It also allows them to save their regex work to text files for sharing, discussion, etc.

I'm a teacher by profession, and I know that learning for many adults can seem like a chore if they don't have something practical to work with. This software made it much easier for me to work through some of the WORST (for me, at least) regular expressions problems.

Best of luck!
--Jack Cole
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JK(dot)Cole(at)Gmail(dot)com

In reply to Re: Training non-programmers in Perl regexps by endofoctober
in thread Training non-programmers in Perl regexps by young_stu

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