| Re: Find Strings (Tokens) in File and push them into an array - How? [message #169585 is a reply to message #169580] |
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"aaaa" <aaaa(at)aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa(dot)com> wrote in message
news:4c94a3ce$0$20987$65785112(at)news(dot)neostrada(dot)pl...
>> 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.
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> 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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