I am not comparing Java and perl, but merely saying that, if regex is a key point of using perl in a particular application, that's no longer a very convincing reason
I disagree.

Both Perl and Java are Turing complete, so you can use any feature in any of those languages, provided you invest enough time to get the infrastructure right.

But normally you just don't want to set up your infrastructure, load modules/libraries (and look up their name first), you just want to write something like this: 

while (<>) {
   print if m/^\d/ && m/\d$/;
}

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If you do that in Java, how many classes do you have to load first? How many classes and objects do you have to declare, and does all that extra line noise make your program more readable?

It's not only important if you can do something, it's also important how you can do it.

In reply to Re: regex in perl and Java by moritz
in thread regex in perl and Java by Anonymous Monk

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