Regular Expressions are beautiful things.

[notfred]

I came up with this at work, and it was so nice looking, I had to post it:

$last =~ s/^(\w\w\w)\w+,\s(\d+)-([^-]+)-(\d+)\s([\d:]+).*/$1 $3 $2 $5 $4/;

 

[Ameesh]

i like regular expressions.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

looks like regular expressions in perl to me.

 

[notfred]

<< looks like regular expressions in perl to me. >>



true.

 

[tallest1]

I got two books that focus solely on Regular Expressions. Its awesome. I wish Google would adapt it.

 

[Ameesh]

<< I got two books that focus solely on Regular Expressions. Its awesome. I wish Google would adapt it. >>



why? when do you need to find every seven letter .org that starts with a t and ends with a q. reg expressions wouldnt make sense google.

youre dumb

 

[ElFenix]

is suck is a regular expression around here, and its not beautiful. in fact, is suck is suck.

 

[Ken g6]

Regular expressions are half the reason I use ViM all the time!

So what does that thing do, anyway? Something with a date?

 

[notfred]

<< Regular expressions are half the reason I use ViM all the time!

So what does that thing do, anyway? Something with a date? >>



yeah, it just formats a date.

 

[Mucman]

The best part about RE's is that they are easy to make but are dang hard to figure out what they are (at least they are to me )