Re^2: Finding dates in unstructured text

I suspect most people assume the new skill being illustrated is Perl regular expressions, but it's really speed typing code with one hand. :)

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Re^3: Finding dates in unstructured text by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 12, 2011 at 20:45 UTC
On the US-English layout, I can type backslash, parenthesis, vertical bar, splat, question mark, colon, plus, brackets all with one hand, so regular expressions are well suited to one-hand typing.	[reply]
Re^3: Finding dates in unstructured text by DrHyde (Prior) on Jan 13, 2011 at 10:31 UTC
Bet it fails to find "jeudi 13 janvier" :-)	[reply]