| Re: Find Strings (Tokens) in File and push them into an array - How? [message #169588 is a reply to message #169580] |
Sat, 18 September 2010 15:01   |
Michael Fesser
Messages: 215
Registered: September 2010
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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.
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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.
That's just your opinion, not a fact.
Micha
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