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I'd add "When A Regex Is Too Much", covering tr(), and "Other Places For a Regex" which would discuss split and grep.

I use those more than substitutions and matches in plenty of programs.

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Re: Re: Learning Perl's Regular Expressions
by japhy (Canon) on May 07, 2001 at 17:45 UTC
    I'm definitely going to cover tr/// in the "optimization" section, showing how to change something as silly-looking as s/[aeiou]//gi to the far more competant tr/aeiouAEIOU//d.

    Don't fear; I'll be discussing functions that are oft or best employed with regexes, especially split() and its magical first argument.

    japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

    Edit: chipmunk 2001-05-07

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