| Re: Find Strings (Tokens) in File and push them into an array - How? [message #169580 is a reply to message #169574] |
Sat, 18 September 2010 11:34   |
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> Obviously you haven't really understood what they are and when pattern
> matching is the most appropriate tool. Of course you can completely
> avoid them, but there are enough cases where a replacement for a single-
> line regex would be many dozen lines of string manipulation functions.
> _That_ would be hard to debug and understand.
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> Yes, regexps are much easier to write than to read, but that doesn't
> make them less useful. You just need a good understanding of how they
> work internally.
I do understand how they work and *sometimes* I use them.
But it doesn't change the fact they are obscure/obfuscated.
And having 10 lines of fast, idiot understandable code is much better then
having one line of regular expressions.
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