In article
<ded2ba47-a48d-476a-a697-0e0768b39ae0@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 June, 19:52, Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com> wrote:
>
> > Perl is too full of regexes and funny symbols to be, in general,
> > readable and understandable.
>
> that was exactly my reaction to C when I first saw it. I'm a former
> Pascal programmer.

:-)

I got off Pascal as soon as I possibly could, but I was disappointed by
some parts of C when I started to use it in about 1085. But it was the
best game in town at the time, and were I to again be doing what I was
doing at that time, I'd probably use it again.

> Hell, I'm not even that big a fan of Perl. But in its own niche it's
> excellent. If I want to match regexps how do I do it? Is there a C
> library that does this without using arcane symbols?

My solution to regexps is not to do them.

--
Tim

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