in reply to Re: Regex Subexpressions
in thread Regex Subexpressions

Yep, I'm a java programmer. I've been programming in Java for about five years, but I've also been writing Perl for the last three years. I just picked up Python a few weeks ago, and I really like it a lot.

I've also done brief stints with VBA, D, C++, and x86 Assembly.

But I know that--when I have a difficult regex problem--the people at perlmonks are more likely to be able to figure out a solution than anyone else.

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Re^3: Regex Subexpressions
by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 10, 2005 at 01:05 UTC
    But I know that--when I have a difficult regex problem--the people at perlmonks are more likely to be able to figure out a solution than anyone else.
    I consider that a misuse, perhaps even an abuse, of the openness here.

    That'd be like saying "I know that most people here probably have apple computers, so I'll post my apple questions here". Seeing questions about Java, with Java's restrictions (even if it is regex), is not the reason I come here. Your task was simple with Perl's regex. Java's regex are different, and thus the answers weren't relevant, but you didn't disclose that at the beginning.

    Please mark your questions "off topic" next time, so I can ignore them.

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