Programmers Unite! and help me figure out what language this is... ;)

[gopunk]

~<.*\.edu>

there is a file of email addresses to be ignored, and that is one of the entries. this will cause any non-.edu email addresses to be ignored.

thanks!

 

[QTPie]

bump

 

[Czar]

a wild guess

because it has tags then, cold fusion maybe?

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

It may not be language specific. Its possible the app looks for a certain character string (in this case ~<.*.\) - a wildcard entry so to speak.

Why the app would use such an odd wildcard is beyond me. Oh well, consider this a free bump.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is that *ALL* of the information you can give us? Knowing what program it works with would help.

 

[Derango]

Thats not any type of cold fusion I've ever seen.

EDIT: Since its in a *file* of e-mail address to be ignored by an app, it probably is somthing the designers of the app came up with for that purpose, and as such, is probably not a standard language. Might be some type of regular expression, however, I don't know enough about that to make a definite identification.

 

[notfred]

That's not really a programming language. It's just some sort of odd regular expression

~<.*\.edu>


~ <- not

<> <- parenthesis

. <-- any character
* <- any number of repeated "any character"

\. <- escaped ., so a literal dot character
edu <- string

 

[Czar]

could be a part of a regular expression.. I think its called.

that would apply to just about any language then

 

[notfred]

also, that's a crappy regex, it'll block something like bob.edu@somewhere.com

it should be ~<.*\.edu$>

 

[kt]

closest thing i can come to is Perl which make use of the wild comparision expression quite a lot.

 

[joohang]

Looks like a regular expressions string to me also.

 

[notfred]

<< closest thing i can come to is Perl which make use of the wild comparision expression quite a lot. >>



it's not perl, in perl that regex would be something like this:
$variable !~ m/.*\.edu/;

 

[Lithium381]

<< closest thing i can come to is Perl which make use of the wild comparision expression quite a lot. >>



that's what i originally thoght when i saw it, but i've never used it, i use PASCAL!!!! 4 LIFE!!!!